~summer~

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The crinums are blooming.

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I was thinking tonight about how much I crave a childhood summer.  As an adult I feel like summer creeps up on me, as if I was asleep for a few months and awoke to a hot and humid day in mid-summer thinking 'Wait!  Stop!  I'm not ready yet...It couldn't possibly be summertime!'

I crave those years when summer stretched out in front of you like an ocean - when days went by in waves of 'what do you wanna do?' and an itinerary was unheard of and the need to be productive was considered pure foolishness.

I crave one of those summers again.

 

Comments

[Janet]

Don't we all? Maybe in retirement?

[compostinmyshoe]

Great shot......and are they ever blooming this year!

Not going up to Jenk's farm because I am out of town..enjoy!

[M Light]

You summed it up exactly! I'd love to have one of those again.

[jodi (bloomingwriter)]

Yes, a childhood summer, with fireflies and no 'to-do list' would be totally awesome, wouldn't it? Just reading your words took me back!

[Benjamin]

Well go have one. Just do it. Move to Paris. Whatever. (I know, I know....)

[Pam]

Janet: Yeah, I guess so. But don't you just remember those days? And when a month of them seemed like FOREVER??

Compost, mine are very happy indeed right now! I loved yours in your recent post.

M Light: I recently had some annual leave that I had to take (or I'd lose it) and so I took it but, more or less, worked from home. I couldn't help but think that was the dumbest thing EVER.

Jodi: Yep, fireflies. Summer storms (and walking around in the puddles afterwards). Laying around in freshly cut grass. Camping out in the backyard. All of that stuff!

Benjamin: Yes, I'll do it! Except that my mortgage payments would suffer, my graduate students and postdoc and lab tech would be really pissed and who would mow my lawn? Being a grown up sucks.

[anna maria]

I understand this feeling so well! Lately I've been very nostalgic for long gone summers, even summers I've never even lived. I keep having a longing to sit on a porch on a warm summer evening, eating watermelon. Must be a fantasy, because I don't think I've ever done that.

[zerozero]

Ah, to have that childhood sense of endless time back. It's wonderful to think back on those days ~ summer seemed to go on forever.