It is this season between spring and summer that you love the most. The air is a symphony of sounds, birds and bees and the wind rustling through the trees. You are grateful for the slow and steady work you have done in your garden in the colder months as the days get warmer and your garden begins to really show signs of life.

It's not quite warm enough to forego your cardigan but the sun is shining steadily and you're thankful for the shade of your vintage straw hat. This morning's garden task is to pot up your tray of seedlings of foxgloves, delphiniums, chocolate Queen Anne's lace, cosmos, and zinnias. 

You work mindfully and carefully placing the baby plants into their own pots. The sun is starting to climb higher in the sky and you remove your cardigan and carefully hang it on a hook inside your greenhouse. The sun's placement reminds you that you have lunch plans this afternoon. 

The last of the baby zinnias are potted up and you carefully insert little popsicle sticks with the names of the plants and today's date into the new potting soil. Your stomach quietly grumbles and you know it's time to pop back indoors, tidy up a bit, slip on on your vintage heels, and head out the door. 

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You could go back to the cabin. Start a fire. Make some hot cocoa and nestle into the oversized chair your grandparents have had since before you were born. But you decide it will be worth it to forge on. You remind yourself that you've been cooped up in the cabin long enough and the air inside was starting to feel stifling. And the phone call that morning admittedly shook your nerves. As the voice on the other side trailed on and on, you caught a glimpse of the world outside your window and the longing to be beneath the open sky where the woods opened out to the sea wrenched at your heart.

It begins to rain steadily. Then harder. Big fat raindrops flop onto your hat. Your linen skirt begins to matte against your bare legs. It's a mid afternoon down pour and you don't care. You keep walking, one foot in front of the other, the call of the open sea beckoning each step forward.

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Mid morning light streamed in through the lace curtained windows and as Sylvie walked around the small house, the sound of running feet, a tea kettle coming to a boil, and a fire crackling at the heart wafted through her mind. Memories of a carefree and happy childhood spent at her grandmother's home in the crispness of early Autumn. 

Her grandmother's house, now hers, had fallen into disrepair in the past ten years. The wood floors creaked even louder and there were small cracks on the walls spreading like little veins. The house had sat empty for years, untouched, unloved, unnoticed.

Sylvie walked back to the front hall and retrieved a small porcelain vase from her suitcase she had carefully wrapped in her favorite floral dress. She wondered if the garden still existed and what state it would be in. As she walked through the back door, vase tucked under her arm, she ducked beneath the eaves of a very overgrown lilac tree and was met with the sight of her grandmother's garden that made her gasp. It was still exactly as she remembered it, mysteriously tended and cared for as if time had not touched it at all. 

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The weather is overcast, the clouds promising a late afternoon shower and you quicken your pace down the hedge lined path tugging at the sleeves of your cardigan sweater and adjusting your hair scarf. As you push open the heavy wooden doors the hinges groan a tired but friendly "Welcome" and instantly the smell of old pages and books and weathered pine fill your senses and you're transported back home, 3000 miles away.

A wave of nostalgia and homesickness washes over you as you glance around. Despite the size of the town's library, old bookcases stretch nearly to the 16 ft ceilings and there are a couple old wooden and metal ladders on rails. You question their safety but find them charming nonetheless and feel as if you've walked onto a movie set library. You let out a long audible sigh and suddenly an older woman's head pops up from behind a counter, her pure white hair pulled tightly into a bun, not a single strand out of place. She gives you a look as if to say "How dare you make a sound in my library?" and raises a thin penciled brow in your direction.

"Young lady, can I help you?" she says in a voice that's deeper than you would have expected, it has a thin shrill about it that makes you instantly feel like you're back in grade school.

"I'm Samantha Post, Sam if you will, I'm here to meet with Mrs. Cleery?"

The old woman's mouth slightly frowns.

"Ahh, so you're the one they've sent to replace me." 

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Perhaps this is why on this uncommon cool summer evening you're especially excited to snuggle into a cozy new lightweight sweater (though it should be noted that you're still barefoot in the grass) while you await the symphony at dusk conducted by the neighborhood birds. 

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A welcome soft breeze gently tickles your legs, waving the hem of your white cotton eyelet midi skirt. You sigh feeling so happy back in this place as childhood memories flood into your mind of the treehouse and the tire swing and Aunt June's peach cobbler and famous sweet tea waiting on the wicker set on the porch. The very same one in front of your eyes.

You smile to yourself as the last bit of heaviness in your heart relented to the warm southern sunshine...