Chasing Sunbeams: A Summer Blog Tag

Hello, everyone!! Today, I'm very excited to announce that I'm starting a summer blog tag challenge!!! I've often seen these challenges on other blogs that I follow, and I've participated in two before (you can read them here and here!), but I've never before started one myself. However, with the sweet hum of summer settling in, I decided that this perfect time to do a summer-themed blog tag. :)

What is Chasing Sunbeams: A Summer Blog Tag?

This is a fun blog challenge, started by The Moonlight Wanderer, in which tagged bloggers can answer ten summer-themed questions. These questions range from books, to summer memories, to summer activities. ☀️

Rules:

1. Acknowledge who tagged you!

2. Answer the questions!

3. Tag friends!

4. Have fun!

   
   

Questions:

1. What's a book you read with summer vibes?

2. If you could travel anywhere this summer, where would you go?

3. What's a poem or quote that reminds you of summer?

4. Describe your favorite summer memory.

5. Your ideal summer is filled with _______, _________, and _________.

6. What is your favorite summer food?

7. Favorite summer activities?

8. How do you usually celebrate 4th of July?

9. What's a song that reminds you of summer?

10. What are you most excited for this summer?

    
    

My Answers!

1. What's a book you read with summer vibes?

   
   

   A book I read with summer vibes is Waves Crashing Just Like Me by Kelsey Gallant. This sweet middle-grade novel is full of the perfect summer adventures and plot twists.

   
   

   

   
   
   
   

2. If you could travel anywhere this summer, where would you go?

   
   

   I would love to go to Hawaii this summer! It's such a beautiful place. I'd lay on the white-sand beaches, collect shells, walk in the warm sun, go swimming, and go snorkeling to see all the aquatic life. I actually went there once when I was eight, but I wasn't really a good swimmer then and was too scared to go snorkeling long in the deeper water. The memories I have from there are great, though, and I'd LOVE to go there again.

   
   

   

   
   

3. What's a poem or quote that reminds you of summer?

   
   

   A poem that reminds me of summer is Daylilies by A. E. Stallings. It's full of themes of memory, beauty, and rain. Here's a section.

   
   

   "Each day the same storm would unfold,

   And in post-thunder afternoons,

   The after-light was syrup-gold,

   As one by one, the flowers scrolled

   Shut, like jaundiced silk cocoons,

   And some plunked on the tabletop,

   Those days ephemeral as days."

   
   

   

   
   
   
   

4. Describe your favorite summer memory.

   
   

   My favorite summer memories are going to the park every evening as a child, playing there with my siblings and all the neighborhood friends until the sky grew dark, and my muscles grew sore, and the fireflies appeared, twinkling in the twilight. Then we'd walk home as the moon rose and drink glasses of cold milk before going to bed.

   
   

   

   
   

5. Your ideal summer is filled with _______, _________, and _________.

   
   

   Friends, family, and the outdoors.

   
   

   

   
   
   
   

6. What is your favorite summer food?

   
   

   I really love watermelon—the sweet kind, where the juice is all sticky and messy and dripping down my face. You might think that's gross, but I really love it. 🤣 I also like plums, pears, berries, and lemon ice cream—and all ice cream in general.

7. Favorite summer activities?

   
   

   My favorite summer activities are biking, fishing, swimming, and doing outdoor target archery!

   
   

   

   
   

8. How do you usually celebrate 4th of July?

   
   

   I love 4th of July! We usually watch firework displays and have barbecue on July 3rd, and on July 4th, we go to this fun event with a friend's family. The event has animals, rides, glitter tattoos, live music, food, balloon artists, and most importantly, they have the best fireworks, paired with the most epic music. We also do our own sparklers and poppers in the driveway when the night is pitch black, the fireflies are out, and the stars are twinkling in the sky.

   
   

   

   
   
   
   

9. What's a song that reminds you of summer?

   
   

   To be honest, all the songs sung by John Denver remind me of summer, because we have two John Denver CDs, and they always play in our car during summertime. The one that reminds me most of summer is Sunshine on My Shoulders.

   
   

   

   
   

10. What are you most excited for this summer?

    
    

I'm most excited to get my driver's permit this summer. It's been a lot of hard work, but I'm so excited to finally get to drive!!

I tag. . .

• Autumn Grace from Shades of Art

• E. G. Runyan from It's All About Perspective

• Molly McTernan from Molly McTernan

• Amelie from Swordmaiden of the King

• Alannah from Let's Run Free

• Maya from Rivers of Words

• L. E. Levens from Keepers of Light and Legend

• Karis Anne from Pertaining to Push-ups and Prose

• Cecilia from Coffee, Craft and Cake

• Jonas from Inspiration Station

Have fun with this—and have a great summer too!

-Julie