I spy joy in lemon drops

At 3:00 in the afternoon today I had plenty to do.  It’s Memorial Day, the last day of a 3-day weekend and I still had laundry to do, kids to bathe, lizard food to buy, dinner to eat, dogs to feed, birthday invitations to create…

But today was a stellar day: 70-something degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. The kind of day that makes you want to do everything outside.  So when my friend Olga offered me a cocktail on her fabulous front porch, I quickly dismissed all the chores that had yet to be done.

We sat in the wooden rockers, looking out at the neighborhood, sipping our lemon drops and chit-chatting about this and that.  An hour went lazily by and I licked every last drop of sugar off the rim of my glass, enjoying the company of a friend on a soon-to-be summer’s day.