Sounds like most of Europe was disappointed with 'summer' this year! It was a similar story in the UK - a few brief weeks of glorious sun in late May and June, but I barely saw any blue sky at all in July and August (I returned from Uganda expecting to be able to maintain my tan, not so! ). September did offer a handful of warm-ish days in which I could comfortably sit and read in the garden in shorts and a t-shirt, but it didn't last long.

Those pictures are truly lovely, Kirsten, and transport me back to those sunny days that were so few!