A gentle breeze came up, softly blowing against my cheeks and pushing back the tips of the green grass.  It sent hundreds of ripples through the verdant field and I felt them brush against my skin and clothes in perfect rhythm.  My eyes were pointed upward at a clear blue sky and caught the dancing clouds flowing across the sky.  Great shadows formed from the stray pieces of white in the blue ocean above as they slowly shifted through the sun’s rays.  When a shadow passed over my body, I closed my eyes and my mind was at peace, releasing itself from all the worries of daily life.

As my eyes opened, the bright light momentarily blinded me.  When the world came back into focus, a soft smile formed on my face and a contented sigh swirled into the air.  Spread all around me, the wind had picked up dandelion seeds and their ghostly edges caught the sunbeams.  Staring upward, I remembered lazy winter days when I laid in the snow and watched flakes fall down and cover my body.  But that endless white was a memory now, the heat had long since chased that into fond fantasies.  And then a dandelion seed landed on my forehead and lay sideways on my brow.  Picking it up and staring at it as the light reflected off of it and then watching the spectral seeds twirling around me in an elegant pattern, I thought that perhaps it wasn’t so different from snow.  As the seeds drifted down around and onto my body, I closed my eyes again, lost in winter dreams brought about by the soft sighs of a summer sky.