The university campus in summer is a dreamy kind of place. As I walked to do an interview this morning (something about food & folklore - and that's a tease of our Fall Issue theme of Cuisine) I passed students playing extreme frisbie, flocks of fledgling wrens skimming along the grounds, overheard "...and later in the 7th century..." from one classroom window, and "...democracy can then be said to evolve from..." via another. All the kids at the Works day camp were making...well I think they were paper mache pigs but definitely small creatures of some kind. Summer: not just a season but a state of mind.

(Image: sustainablog.)