I stumbled upon you and gracefully basked in your rays...

the lazy days of summer are nearing their end...

an irreversible tradition is set within us from childhood--that the summer months will bring a carefree, easy-going, lemonade & backporch swing kind of day... Regardless of how hard you try, you must concede that this feeling is not easily broken. Routines are happily interrupted, errands become a lower priority, the rules become stretched, you bring out the backyard (or balcony-) grill, and enjoy the sunshine until past 9 pm... fireflies in the mason jar. Can we just hold on to this breezy, simple feeling?

then followed that beautiful season... Summer....filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSummer's not even my favorite season, and it evokes such endearment.

It's as if we're little solar-powered creatures, and summertime provides just enough of a 'recharge' to keep us ticking all year long. It's lively...it's refreshing. I would say we summer-ed well this year, clearly marked by going through 7 bottles of sunscreen. and the lingering smiles on our faces...

But then, my friends, we only have this on deck. Not a bad line up, Lord.
...delicious autumn! my very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. -- George Eliot