The light in June leading up to the solstice is so lovely in the foothills. Predictably, I think of this part in Out of Africa:
The sky was rarely more than pale
blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing
clouds towering up and sailing on it, but it has a blue vigor to it, and
at a short distance it painted the ranges of hills and the woods a
fresh deep blue. [...] Up in this high air, you breathed easily, drawing in a
vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in
the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
