The dappled sunlight coming through the tree in front of our apartment just shone on me at my desk upstairs for the first time this year. I realized our apartment faces the same direction as my house back home, because there as it got closer to summer the sun would start to set on the right side of the Boyds' house across the street instead of the left. Here, it's setting to the right enough to be shining in through our front windows. Isn't it interesting how if the light is filtering through a lot of leaves, when it finally hits a surface (the floor of my apartment in this case) it's all of these perfect circles overlapping each other? You might not be able to envision that but you'd know what I'm talking about when you saw it.
Man, sometimes I just get so homesick... summers back on Oakland Avenue, maybe like 10 years ago when we were young enough to have water fights and play Man Hunt but old enough to stay outside late. I had one of those blocks with 20 kids on it. And the sun setting later and later now just brings me back :)
I guess it's not hard to get homesick for a different time and place when you're glued to a desk copying things like, "PABA antimetabolites inhibit dihydropteroate synthase."


(that's the mechanism of sulfonamides, in case you felt like quizzing yourself).