“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby . . . and we are [very nearly] at last, and once again, at my favourite time in all the world: summertime, summertime . . . [image sources & credits: bates nursery and garden center /// rococo […]