The sun was shining and the water was glistening when Patch reader Melinda Pressler captured this image March 8 at Zuma Beach in Malibu. "Coming soon in June: summer," she wrote in an email to Patch.

Spend this summer exploring nature in your local area with the Bitesize Summer Nature Challenge, introduced by Sir David Attenborough. In the UK’s warmest season nature is blooming all around us ...