Summer Is Upon Us....

When I was a child I used to enjoy picking the mint leaves from the side yard. The plants grew like a weed under the kitchen window and I would lay on the grass in the sun and absorb the aroma

and now as "I am old" I would like to add to that memory a little....

(Tzar Nicholas and his Tzarina and family have always evoked the deepest feeling in me. Queen Victoria should be held accountable for turning her back on that family.....I digress as usual.... )

......also some

and liberal applications of ice....Divine! ...Ola mojitos....

........sigh..Summer has finally arrived!