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Summer 

Just the word makes you relax, reminisce and smile. As we approach the mid-point of Summer, are you enjoying summer?

Veranda Kathryn Ireland

Why do we love summer?

Let us count the ways with these five things to savor about this summer, today, here and now:

1. Enjoy Summer’s Simple Pleasures

ice cream and dog

Joy comes easier in the summer.

Joy certainly comes from simple things like sharing an ice cream cone with your best friend or lying on your tummy in the grass…or catching lightning bugs, listening to the July rain on the front porch or dangling your feet and legs into cool pool water…

Enjoy the little things

…Or watching the summer breeze caress the curtains in the open window.

curtain breeze

2. Savor the Soothing Summer Sun

The warm summer sun on our bare skin is delightful.

But beyond the simple pleasure of glorious summer sun, there are many psychological and health benefits to sunshine. Did you know that your body turns sunlight into health-enhancing Vitamin D, known to reduce risk of some of the most common cancers and contribute to bone health?

summer sun hat

What we instinctively know has been proven by scientific research: Sunshine elevates our mood, our outlook and even helps increase sleep quality.

Keep Calm lay in sun

Just don’t forget the sunscreen to protect your skin health.

Blue chairs on beach

3. Savor summer’s invitation to escape to another time and place.

beautiful boat on beach

Summer is the traditional time for getting away for a few days or a week or two. That gives us a much-needed opportunity to unplug and unwind and have new experiences that cause the day-to-day routine and problems to fade for awhile.

Escape

One of the best parts of escaping, even for a short while: Summer vacations help you reconnect with yourself. They provide a time for self-discovery.

watermelon on the beach

Reconnecting with yourself increases your creativity and productivity, elevates your mood and enhances your physical and spiritual health.

pier sun drenched

Summer allows, invites, beckons us to get away, even in small ways when we let our guard down and enjoy child-like pleasures.

A little sand between your toes

And then, somehow, those problems back home seem less insurmountable. 

 4. Savor the beauty of summer flowers

April showers and May flowers are lovely, but there are no flowers like the flowers of summer. Are hydrangeas your favorite?

hydrangea beach

Or are you partial to peonies?

peony with picnic table

5. Savor the possibilities of summer.

Summer is the season of hope and promise. Our spirits take on a new vibrancy.

Invincible Summer 

In conclusion, may you savor this summer as never before. And may you always keep a bit of summer deep within, no matter what the season.

sunny zoom in close up

Love in the sand

Kim Darden Shaver

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Leslie Hendrix Wood

Founder, Editor In Chief of Hadley Court

Gracious Living. Timeless Design. Family Traditions.

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About Leslie Hendrix Wood

Leslie Hendrix Wood is the founding editor of the luxury lifestyle and design blog, Hadley Court and an has her own interior design firm, Leslie Hendrix Wood Interiors in Midland, Texas.

Leslie received her undergraduate degree in business. She worked briefly in banking and returned to school to earn her MBA.

Upon graduation, she moved to Washington D.C. to work on a Presidential campaign and received a Presidential appointment to a position in International Trade.

At the end of the administration, Leslie returned to her hometown and joined the family oil and gas business, although her first passion has always been, after raising her children with her husband, business and interior design.

When she saw her children were closer to leaving home, she decided to start the blog, Hadley Court. in 2012, which won the Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame award for Best New Design Blog in 2013 - a prestigious honor granted by her peers.

In 2014, she is, in addition to blogging, beginning to build the family friendly luxury lifestyle brand: HADLEY COURT, based on her values of Gracious Living, Timeless Design and Family Traditions.

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