…my camera gave to me,
Two girls a-swimming…
…and also throwing rocks to watch the ripples spread in perfect circles and poking sticks at feisty crayfish.
There was a third girl there, too, not too far to the right, laughing while she spun around and around in a pink doughnut, sending diamond sparkle drops high into the blazing blue sky.
There was also an eagle catching fish, and a speedboat making white wake, and dancing watery reflections on the bark of all the leaning trees as the lake laughed at the sun arching high.
The whole afternoon was a summer poem, properly balanced out with nasty horseflies and accidentally dropped crackers turning to mush in the water and a little more sand in the car on the way home than I would have liked.
“So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.“ (Ecclesiastes 8:15)
And right this way to The First Day of Summer, just in case you missed it!
Rejoicing Hills 
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