Wednesday 18th June - Snow in Summer

 Snow-in-Summer is a real thing! Not weather (I hope!) but an attractive little plant. I think I did know that... 

The title of today's post came to me as I was baking in what must have been one of the hottest days of the year so far. I foolishly walked across the paved area in bare feet to get from the sun-trap where I had been sitting to a shadier spot. 'Ow! Ow!' I went with every cautious step!

Earlier in the day I had been doing some stitching to the Cover Story collaboration project that Ang and I are doing together. We're at the penultimate stage of adding our names and the dates, something we have done in our two previous projects. I'm keeping the threads and the material together in an old Christmas shortbreads tin while I'm working on it. Slow progress; one word, or nine letters/numbers at a time is enough, before I lose concentration. 

I've started reading yet another Three Pines / Inspector Gamache whodunit, set in Quebec, near Montreal, where winters are long and spring comes late. This one is 'The Better Man', and these lines were in the opening paragraphs;

"The sky was gray and threatened rain. Or sleet. Ice pellets or snow. The dirt road was covered in slush and mud. There were patches of snow on the sodden grass. Villagers out walking their dogs were clumping around in rubber boots and wrapped in layers of clothing, hoping to keep April away from their skin and out of their bones."

Which I read while sheltering indoors from the midday sun...

So it's not really surprising that my choice of music is another piece from Debussy's ' Children's Corner', called 'The Snow is Dancing'.