It's over. Officially. Completely. By most every account, Summer 2013 is a thing of the past.I have enjoyed it. Some things in particular. Namely:
- watermelon
- sliced tomatoes
- cherries
- cucumbers marinating in a mason jar
- lullaby cicadas
- vacation
- family reunions
Just as those things that meant summertime to me as a child, are still fondly recollected.
Namely:
- Camping out on the Fourth of July at the Baron Fork of the Illinois River with my paternal grandparents .
- Going to Marble Falls, Texas from my maternal grandparents lake house in Kingston to see the Rattle Snakes in the window of a hardware store.
- water skiing at the lake to three dog night music
- taking turns sitting on a towel placed atop an old school ice cream freezer while Daddy cranked the handle.
- lighting sparklers and black cats, lady fingers and smelly "snakes"
- perpetual barefeet except when wearing flip flops
- I love watching lightening bugs,
- the sound of kids pulled behind a boat on a tube
- bug vine on the fence and day lilies along the fence row
- time in the garden (though nowadays its my little bitty kitchen garden rather than my grandparent's huge vegetable garden or my grandmother's flower garden.
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