From the new day…
As the evening air becomes cooler and the light of day is running short, it’s clear that fall is on its way, but summer is not over yet. This weekend I had the chance to immerse myself in this free and easy season when life is more about down time than a hectic pace and the outdoors is one big recreation room. A weekend at the beach in Rehoboth provided some of the season’s finest offerings…buying local peaches and tomatoes at a road side stand…sitting on the beach with friends on Friday evening watching the changing colors of the sky as the dolphins entertained us in the water…the grandiosity of a summer thunderstorm…and a long walk on the beach on Sunday morning as the sun sparkled on the water, the sea spray lightly touched my skin and my footprints were left in the sand as my signature on a thank you note to summer.
The summer of 2012, like many others, was filled with seasonal pleasures…tending the gardens and seeing the beautiful results of this earthy work, filling the feeders and watching the golden finch and hummingbird return, sitting under the night sky imagining the expanse of the universe, driving with the windows down and the air blowing my hair, picking fruit with my grandchildren and seeing them love their first taste of blackberries, breathing in the summer air tinged with the scent of honeysuckle and seeing the lushness of the Pennsylvania woodlands. The pleasures are many.
Thank you summer! What fun you have been!
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