Well, so far there has been a whole lot of this:
However, the days right now are as long as my book piles are high, so there is still time for catching late afternoon beach time (or a morning walk there before I hit the books), and a weekend drink with friends. Such things also happen—and the sunshine lifts my heart.
On the patio of an open-to the-public sailing/kayak club on the beach near my house.
(Stripe flash mob? Nope. Just friends that all showed up to dinner wearing stripes.What are the chances?!)
Another gift comes in form of blackberries: they have just begun to ripen. My summer in Oxford introduced me to picking blackberries along the river—my original blackberry summer—and Vancouver has allowed me the unlikely opportunity to continue that tradition with overgrown blackberry bushes truly everywhere here.