A century of summer ...

I wonder if poet Russell Baker had West Texas in mind when he wrote, "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." Or Samuel Taylor Coleridge, when he wrote, "Summer has set in with its usual severity." But then along comes a shot like this one, taken in the northwest quarter of the Midland College main campus ...
... and all I can think of is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "Then followed that beautiful season ... Summer ..."