***UPDATE Monday, August 19***
Thank you to everyone who visited my blog during the Summer of Love blog hop!
- Laurie is the lucky commenter who will receive a gift e-copy of Just Beyond the Garden Gate.
From August 12 through 18, I’m participating in the Summer of Love Blog Hop and gifting one e-copy of Just Beyond the Garden Gate to one commenter who leaves a comment describing their favorite summertime memory. If you wish to join in the fun, include your email so I can contact you if your name is drawn from the straw hat. Feeling shy? Email me at Dawn at DawnMarieHamilton dot com instead.
I’m a Leo. Summertime has always been special for me. What better time to fall in love? Oh, the summer nights! Visiting the boardwalk at the Jersey shore or the local firefighters’ carnival. Holding hands with a special guy while walking the beach at the lake, watching fireflies—lightning bugs as we called them—in the trees.
One such memory inspired a scene for Just Beyond the Garden Gate...
She stared in awe. The faerie knoll was a mysterious place. Hundreds of small dazzling white lights flickered around them. The sparkling lights hovered near the ground and up high, in the grass atop the knoll and in the nearby tree branches. The scene reminded her of her childhood, of watching lightning bugs, little glowing fireflies dancing in the night. She thought the sight amazing, and beautiful.“This place is known as the Sithichean Sluaigh. Legend has it the knoll is a habitat for faeries. I have heard the old folk say beams of brightly colored light are seen here on starless nights,” Patrick said with a dancing twinkle in his eyes.
What is your favorite summertime memory? Leave a comment below for a chance to receive an e-gift copy of Just Beyond the Garden Gate. Please remember to leave an email addy.
~Dawn Marie
~Dawn Marie
