Summer in Hillside - Maree

“It is summer, it is the solstice

the crowd is cheering,

the crowd is laughing

in detail

permanently, seriously

without thought.”

- William Carlos Williams

The beginning of summer in Tarlton is always a mixture of old dead grass left over from the winter and green shining through the landscape blackened by the winter's veld fires - this is a friend's smallholding not far from us up in Hillside (Tarlton, South Africa).