What a wonderful summer week this has been!  Even though I’m not on vacation, I’m still enjoying the blue skies and the warm sun on my skin.  I think it helps that the sun pours through my office window and I can open the window and feel the fresh breeze.  Somehow it almost makes the fact that I’m chained to my desk for the next, oh, six months, not seem so bad. (Almost.)  And aren’t these flowers so beautiful, glowing in the evening summer sun?  Thanks to Sarah for identifying them on Instagram as Hollyhocks — otherwise, I woud have never known!

Have you stopped to enjoy summer recently?  Or are you traveling some place exotic?