Saturday Self-Challenge: Summer (or, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, Winter). Take a shot of anything that represents your favorite aspect of the season.

My favorite thing about summer is going near a large body of water and enjoying the marine atmosphere of boats and sea birds. It was a beautiful day when I took this photo as I walked the boardwalk promenade along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. We've been seeing the hottest days of the year this past week, and with the heat came thunder storms. This day we saw rather dramatic billowing clouds reaching high into the sky. The sail boat on the water gives a good indication of how large this particular cloud formation was.

Another sight of summer I love to see are green farm fields full of corn and grain. In the note is a photo I took the same day of a farm in Southern Pennsylvania.