{"id":2211,"date":"2012-06-11T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2012-06-12T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:45:51","slug":"the-upsides-of-a-hot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/06\/11\/the-upsides-of-a-hot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The upsides of a hot day"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so it was officially too hot for a middle-aged woman to take a walk outdoors this morning (Monday), even if she stuck to the shade and grabbed an iced tea along the way. When I left the station at 9:30 it was somewhere above 70F. An hour later it was 84 and feeling very steamy. Very summer-y.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of upside notes to make.<\/p>\n

A: the air is full of evocative scent on a hot humid day. Just now, the spruce trees are going mad with a sweet, resin-y fragrance. The scent of roses and peonies is everywhere, though I couldn\u2019t spot a rosebush or a peony along my route. A little ditch smells like frogs and fresh water. Even fresh blacktop takes me back to a particular summer when I had a new bike and all the roads around my house got a new surface.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And B: wild strawberries are in. Catching my breath under the last spruce tree before the last leg across the parking lot, l looked down and, maybe because the lawn is kept so closely trimmed here, I also caught the first glimpse of ripe berries. I\u2019ll be checking my own yard, where there\u2019s a big patch of lawn I\u2019ve avoided for the last couple of mowing.<\/p>\n

Sandy Demarest reminded me of her recipe for \u201cNana\u2019s Strawberry Shortcake\u201d in our book, Stories, Food, Life. <\/em>It back to when she was a little girl and it looks like the key ingredients were Sandy, her five sisters, and their berry pails. It\u2019s on page 52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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