What's your favorite harbinger of summer?

[m-jean03]

This shirt on a guy?


Or something else?:7

[GOPisEvil]

1. Long days and HEAT!

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. the bells of the ice cream man

Mr. Softie specifically, anything else is a communist immitator.

[dolo amber]

3. Margaritas!!

:9

[GOPisEvil]

6. You lush!

Margaritas are good year-round! :9

[nini]

4. the cooling off in the evening

the end to a nice hot day.

[GainesT1958]

5. The smell of honeysuckle and taste of strawberries in May...

And the running of soft-shell crabs!:D

B-)

[Maine-i-acs]

7. The frogs!

They come to the vernal pools to mate when the temperature is right. The temperature was right as of last Friday! They sang all night and have been doing so every night since.

If I got some nookie after a winter of sleeping, I'd sing too!

[H2O Man]

20. Of the many varieties of frogs

my favorite is the "peeper," a tiny, tree-frog sized type that inhabit the local swamps, ditches, and ponds. There are hundreds (probably thousands) in this "neighborhood" .... and their song is so beautiful!

[gyopsy]

8. Humidity

Where I'm from in Florida, summer usually isn't a good thing. It's nice in spring and in the winter here. Summers are too much. :(

[commander bunnypants]

9. driving through the campus of

Virginia Commonwealth University ( alma mater)

and

Hummna Hummna Hummna


DDQM

[Mr. McD]

10. I love those long hot days of summer.

[SaveElmer]

11. Baseball Baby!!!

[m-jean03]

12. Smell of BBQ, anyone?

Yumm.

[GOPisEvil]

14. The aroma of freshly cut grass.

Although, that might be more spring than summer.

[forgethell]

19. Me, me ,me

I was going to say that, but you beat me to it.

[redqueen]

13. The first show of roses in my garden...

Watering the tomatoes I'm waiting till Summer to enjoy...

Baseball...

:)

[solinvictus]

15. Honestly

Low cut shirts and high cut shorts on the ladies! :evilgrin:

[m-jean03]

18. Wish short shorts would

Come back in style for men

Women like to see a little boy leg too!

[solinvictus]

28. Leg

It's actually the flash of hiney you occasionally get for me.

[Burma Jones]

16. Tankies and Tonic

The Kentucky Derby
'Ritas
Tulips
GREEN-NESS

[demnan]

17. They take the cover off the pool in the complex

[MisterP]

21. the first week of sustained 90-degree and -percent weather

the first migrating termite queen to ignite in the halogen lamp,
the first McMansion subdivsion to go up in flames,
the first Summer Crusade of hard-faced, boot-camp Crystal Cathedral SA teens and half-million crowds of yearning-, aching-faced people at Christian/Mammon rock/rap/skaterpunk bands,
the first conquest and subjugation of a city by Wal*Mart in its summmer campaign in the Great Secret Corporate War,
the first grovelling for "love offerings" by some LSD nightmare of a televangelist on a ten-foot 24K throne studded with fist-sized Barrick diamonds,
the first wave of paintballers punching holes in all the cacti and taking over all the open spaces all day long,
the first vicious mauling of a cougar by a person,
the return of the swallows to Capistrano and their subsequent mowing down by the Suburb Militia,
the first wave of crap on cable ("two hundred channels and nothing to watch").
I don't like my Orange County very much.

[m-jean03]

22. Wow -

You could read that at a poetry open-mike, it sounds so lyrical!

[bmbmd]

23. On the leeward side of Stangell Hall at Texas Tech University,

all the coeds start sunning when the weather turns summery. Hence, the name "Stangell Beach".

[Canuckistanian]

24. For me it's when the outside thermometer thaws

And the Skiddoo hits a patch of mud for the first time.
Ah, the memories....

[Deja Q]

25. The sounds of delicious forest animals mating in the woods'n'wetlands

Of course, peeps are a more favorite reminder of mine... :evilgrin:

(the decompressor came in today too, hehehehehe...)

[DODI]

26. "The Boys are Back In Town"

For some reason that always means summer to me. When I was a kid it was commerical for a Honday dealership. Whenever you heard "spread your wings, fly away, its a Manchester Honda kinda of day" you knew summer was coming.

[Lefty48197]

27. Leaving the front door open and not freezing my ass off

a sure sign that summer's coming.

[SmileyBoy]

29. Yeeeeecccchhh...

That shirt is UGLY...

[geniph]

30. The first transplanted Californian whining,

"what happened to our suuuuuummmmmmerrrrr?" after three weeks of sunshine are followed by one day of grey.

[m-jean03]

31. Hey, that sounds familiar

Washingtonian here, too :hi: