What is your favorite thing about summer?

[Artemesia's Garden]

Swimming in the sea. Or possibly butterflies.

[SunPony]

I think my favorite thing is how late it stays light out.  I can still run errands after work without being in the darkness. 

[Artemesia's Garden]

When it ends. I hate summer

 

That made me giggle.

Also this thread made me realise that in a lot of places summer is hotter than I personally would enjoy, so it doesn't mean the same thing everywhere. I get very overwhelmed in mediterranean climates and just get all pink and puffy for some reason IDK. Very English probably.

On the positive I also love fetes and garage sales.

[BlackCurtains]

On the positive I also love fetes and garage sales.

What are 'fetes'? Is that like a flea market?

[Artemesia's Garden]

On the positive I also love fetes and garage sales.

What are 'fetes'? Is that like a flea market?

It's a small village thing usually with stalls for charity (plants, cakes, second hand children's clothes). They might have a cake competition and then sell the cakes for example. A fancy dress competition for kids. Glamorous Granny competition used to be a thing, not sure it still is. You can pay for a donkey ride or face painting, ice cream. Maybe there is a giant bubble machine or a bouncy castle. Cute stuff for kids. Maybe a coconut shy, old fashioned fairground games or an egg and spoon race.

[Loa]

OH GODS I MISS SUMMER!

/lurks in a sub-Antarctic winter.

[BlackCurtains]

On the positive I also love fetes and garage sales.

What are 'fetes'? Is that like a flea market?

It's a small village thing usually with stalls for charity (plants, cakes, second hand children's clothes). They might have a cake competition and then sell the cakes for example. A fancy dress competition for kids. Glamorous Granny competition used to be a thing, not sure it still is. You can pay for a donkey ride or face painting, ice cream. Maybe there is a giant bubble machine or a bouncy castle. Cute stuff for kids. Maybe a coconut shy, old fashioned fairground games or an egg and spoon race.

Oh neat! I grew up with those types of festivals/carnivals. It's definitely a small town thing.

[SunPony]

On the positive I also love fetes and garage sales.

What are 'fetes'? Is that like a flea market?

It's a small village thing usually with stalls for charity (plants, cakes, second hand children's clothes). They might have a cake competition and then sell the cakes for example. A fancy dress competition for kids. Glamorous Granny competition used to be a thing, not sure it still is. You can pay for a donkey ride or face painting, ice cream. Maybe there is a giant bubble machine or a bouncy castle. Cute stuff for kids. Maybe a coconut shy, old fashioned fairground games or an egg and spoon race.

This sounds like so much fun!  I wish we could have something like this in my neighborhood.  Maybe someday...

[Artemesia's Garden]

The way I described it makes it sound very Ponyville actually! I think they are mostly organised by churches or schools, I love stuff like that but I don't have kids so I'm not really involved any more. When I still lived in my parent's village I used to go to stuff with my Mum and when I worked in a museum I got to organise a few similar events themed on the museum. Since I moved to a different county I'm completely out of touch.

OH GODS I MISS SUMMER!

/lurks in a sub-Antarctic winter.

 

[rearing_palomino164]

I love the summer nights and flowers!

[katrine2309]

I can get a touch of winter depression due to lack of sun and light (I live in Norway, so the winter is long and dark). So my fav thing about summer is probably longer days. But I also love my garden, and when everything blooms. Summer vacation probably, I am a teacher so we have to take out most of it during summer. Which is mostly fine by me as I don’t function that well when it is hot. I also love spending time up in the mountains, swimming in mountain rivers and lakes, hiking and finding small thrift shops in the strangest places possible

Edit: I forgot to mention the most important thing: I love that summer is full of LIFE! Animals and their newborns, flowers and plants showing off, bees and butterflies flying around I am also super greatful that we don’t have poisonous spiders and only one poisonous snake here.

There is really just a couple of things I don’t like: temperatures over 25 degree Celsius and ticks. I am super scared of ticks!

[mlp4me]

Just being outside as much as possible. Gotta take in as much of nature as possible whilst it's still here... Nature tends to go into hibernation from early October-April around here.