He writes, ‘Nothing conjures up the essence of summer more than inimitable moments doing the simplest things; washing laundry in the lake, enjoying a frosty popsicle on a sweltering afternoon, or gazing out across the horizon searching for one’s destiny.  Childhood recollections are the most invincible of secret hideaways.  The ability of these memories to influence the present is bound up in a personal capacity to hold onto that sensation of simple curiosity that pervades one’s juvenile years.  To spend a summer afternoon with nothing to do but dream is a moment I long to retreat to over and over again in adulthood.  The celebration of such lazy afternoons is the spark that allows me to conceptualize telling a story on a grand scale today.  They are moments lost in time, but their power is never forgotten.”

Kevin says that some of his fondest summer retreats have been “colored by time”, but that nostalgia still holds onto their innocence and magic.  “To stumble upon such places twenty or thirty years later can be very disillusioning.  Life and progress almost always change their physical nature.  The potency of such irreplaceable settings, however, can be retained as heady memories, locked away in one’s impression of another time.”

Source:  Beyond Green Gables