Summer Albums

My first three, for the start of summer:

1. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

2. Laura Veirs - July Flame

3. Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring

The first two are also a good mid-summer albums, and Horse Feathers works for both spring, fall, and winter, but they all seem appropriate for the start of summer, when Midsummer's stretches before us, when evenings still lengthen. Before we pant for summer's end. The beginning, when the world seems largest.

A good read for those wishing to escape to cooler climes? Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight. I promise.