 A field of corn stretching for the sun, a straw hat, a hoe, and a garden. Summer is the fresh garden peas, new lettuce crisp in the salad bowl, snap beans, sun-ripe raspberries on the bush, and chilled strawberries in a bowl of cream. Summer is the weed, the gnawing insect, the foraging woodchuck, the nibbling rabbit. Summer is sweat. Summer is a lazy river and a languishing brook. It is a vacation dreamed of.