Summertime & Architectural Reverie

Basilica Nuestra Señora De La Altagracia in  Higüey, Dominican Republic. Taken in March.

Summer is here, and with it a new set of moods, activities, reflections, and stirrings. I love summer very deeply. While I am also moved by the transitional seasons of spring and autumn, there is something about summer that is hard to put my finger on. It is a season of physical activity and outdoor leanings, but it is also a season of incredible torpor, lazing about, and daydreaming. I suppose I am attracted to anything dyadic. Summer is the height of life in the yearly cycle, and even through the dreamy haze we see the mad panoply of nature spreading out in all directions. Life is most clear in summer, in its most crystallized form. So, while I should be preparing syllabi for my upcoming classes (new job at the University of Georgia), I want nothing more than to bake in the sun, listen to Delius or Barber, play Zelda, spend time with friends and loved ones, read languidly and forgetfully, and doze happily. In and out of sleep, in and out of reality, such that the two become indistinct in my mind. From this blurred realm of reverie, I present a strange little piece about the Stone Talus. I hope you enjoy.