Summertime, and the livin’ is easy …

Summer starts with the solstice, the longest day of the year, photographed at Loveland Pass, Colorado, 11,999 feet above the sea.
SUMMIT COUNTY — Mid-July is definitely the height of the summer season pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere, so when #FriFotos host and founder @EpsteinTravels announced this week’s theme for the popular Twitter chat, I zipped through the archives to find a few shots from this summer, as well as year’s past. And as much as I love cold powder snow and skiing, there’s something to be said for being able to go outside without putting on multiple layers, hats, gloves … you know what I mean, right? Join in the fun by uploading pics to Twitter and tagging them with #FriFotos.

This summer picture of my son is a few years old, but I still cherish it as a classic summer shot, taken just a few days after school let out. Check out the fistful of mud!

A dragonfly takes a short rest on a Bungee cord holding down roof luggage on our car during last summer’s road trip.

A summer thunderstorm builds over the Austrian alps at one of our favorite cooling-off spots, the Mondsee in the Salzkammergut region.

In the Colorado high country, late July and early August is the season for wild mushrooms like this porcini — if we get our usual dose of summer monsoon rains.
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