WHAT MAKES HIGH SUMMER? LIGHT - Maybe it is the all-penetrating light which comes at you from every direction. It surrounds you, reflecting from the dark, rich green of leaf, off branch and twig, rock and sky. This light is the light of Life because this is the season of life, when everything is growing, growing, growing and all of this fecundity is fed by, nurtured by, loved by - light. We in the northern hemisphere are closest to our very source of life and light - the Sun