Midsummer bliss

This is one of my favourite parts of the year - it's light all day long - in the morning when I wake up and at night when I go to bed.  Fills me right up.  I've been cycling 3 miles along the canal to work and back again and have seen the emergence of spring through the trees, plants and wildlife.

One of my most treasured moments over the past few weeks has been when, on more than one occasion,  a heron or two take flight along the course of the water beside me.  They fly up behind me, and, as they fly along, for a time, it feels like I'm flying with them, gliding along beside them on my bike along the towpath.  Truly amazing.

Today I noticed some rather promisingly bountious blackberry bushes along my route to work.  Roll on late summer - lunch/commuter-time berry harvesting here I come.