Second on the Second

Welcome to the  Second on the Second  over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth' s blog.  And June, already! I said it the other day and I am still in shock. Now we are down just over 2 weeks of school left.
(I am so excited and ready for summer. I'll try not to be a pain and keep bringing it up, but I might not be able to control myself.  :)  )

So today for my second views I decided to share some old photos I posted in June during the last 9 years that I have been blogging. To me, they all celebrate early summer!

Sometimes I think it might be freeing to go just roll in the grass. But then I think people might think I have really lost it.
Oh I miss my last puppy Harley. He loved to roll in the grass but hated to have his picture taken. We used to think he felt like it was sucking out his life force. He lived a good long life for a big dog (over 14 years) and although he's been gone 2 years that past week, I miss him still.

Moths on the windows means warm nights.

I live in a region with lots of lakes and summer places. I'd call them cabins, but so many of them are not longer that. But yet everyone still puts up their sign, even if their cabin is 10,000 square feet and worth 2 million dollars.

And summer camps are getting ready to open too.

My veggie garden is all planted. I love watching the little plants pop out of the soil and then grow and produce. Last year we were kind of dry and my garden kind of petered out. I hope to get a good harvest this year. I didn't get to do much pickling or processing last year, and I missed it.

OK, here's another one of Harley. He really didn't like water either. But we used to take him on a rare occasion anyhow. He didn't mind if the water was smooth. he just hated it rough because of splashes and he'd get wet. he hated getting wet.
Unlike my dog now. Maddie would go swimming around the ice on the lake in the winter. I think she'd rather be wet than dry.

On the dock at my mother-in-laws. No snake named Bruce either that day.
(Thanks goodness for that)

And the flowers make me excited.

Can't wait for strawberries!

I used to work part time in the summer as a lake host. I would sit at the boat ramp and check boats to be sure they weren't bringing in invasive weeds into the lake. It was a good job. I could read and doodle when there wasn't any boats. It was the perfect part time summer job, when I wanted to work a little bit that was.

And drinking Ice cream frappes on occasion is never bad.

And of course flowers. :) Rain spotted flowers are even prettier. :)

And last summer I lost this guy, my Leo. I miss him too. He was like having a dog in the house, and he was my shadow.

But I love this time of year. Things are always changing. I don't know about my irises this year; they are hardly up so far. Hopefully they will still come up but they're kind of late...
Any which way, welcome to June.