Shedding season

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

— Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013), famed architectural writer. She spent about half of each year in a ranch house in Marblehead, on the Massachusetts North Shore.