Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

—John Lubbock

June

Strawberry Lemon Poppy Seed Scones

Capture the peak of strawberry flavor and sweetness at this time of the year. Lemon tartness and the crunch of nutty black poppy seeds make these scones as a refreshing as a cool early summer breeze.

July

4th of July Scones

If liberty had a flavor, it would be the coconut and red, white, and blue sprinkles covering the vanilla ice cream pops doled out of ice cream trucks on the Fourth of July. The patriotic colored sprinkles are like fireworks blasting across the night sky on the 4th of July, or a week later on France’s Bastille day.

Vive la liberté – everywhere!

August

Blueberry Lemon Ginger Scones

A trace of blueberry tartness, some tang of lemon, a touch of ginger’s fire, and the herbal sweetness of cardamon in these scones refreshes a parched palate on hot summer days.