Summer. What a beautiful thing. Have you noticed the lilacs this year? I swear they've never been so beautiful. The owner of the cafe where I work brought in a huge armful of lilac branches, and put a vase of them at every table. The exquisite perfume hangs delicately in the air, serenading you as you do normally mundane things like filling salt shakers. But now you can't help but be happy, because a lilac is smiling at you.