Mountain Musings — Summer, a welcome sight

by Kate Evans

“Summertime and the living is easy,” says the George Gershwin tune that’s sung in the 1935 “Porgy and Bess” opera.  That slow, gentle rhythm of the season starts to kick in just after Memorial Day weekend is over and schools let out for the summer.

The summer season is always a welcome sight with the lush deep green that covers everything after spring’s parade of blossoms and flowers.  Fields and yards are…