ka-pow! summer

Summer comes on dramatically here on our mountain. July's fireworks have nothing on the ostentatious, stunning, explosion of flora we see in the month of June.

To illustrate the point, here's our house on June 4 this year...

Here's our house June 19...

And here's our house July 2...

While our mountains are best known for winter fun, the summers are truly glorious. Beautiful temperatures, lots of sun, rumbling thunderstorms that echo off the entire mountain range, loads of wildlife scurrying to feed before winter comes again, flocks and flocks of wild birds including all variety of hummingbirds that zoom about doing fly-bys, and beautiful bouquets of wildflowers. All that plus the sun is out until 9 o'clock. Summers really can't be beat.

There are literally new variety of wildflowers blooming every day we go in to the site. I'll try to photograph this weekend...

How's summer progressing in your neck of the woods?