Best Shot Monday

     

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  "A Summer Story laced with pink, and prickly passion..." 

There are so many things for each of us that holler "Summer is here, Summer is here!"

For some it is the marking of the calendar... the day when the kids joyfully slam their locker doors and scream as school finally lets out for the summer. There's the Fourth of July, fireworks, and the first big backyard get together of the season, where there's a pig roasting on a spit and the kids sit sprawled in the grass sipping iced tea and seeing who can shuck their corn the fastest. 

There's the trip to the lake, and the week spent wrapped in Grandma's endless smile, baking apple and rhubarb pies... lazy days spent with Grandpa down at the old fishing hole with a coffee can full of night crawlers that you proudly dug up all by yourself... and the end of a long happy sunburnt day, where you sit cross legged on the cool tile of the kitchen floor, all barefoot, eyeballing the scab on your knee where you fell off your bike as you tried to ride the railroad tracks as if it were a tight rope.

There's walking barefoot in the tall grass that tickles and scrapes your legs, playing tag with the fireflies as night begins to fall and you wish you were a firefly too... there's caramel corn and ferris wheels, watermelon and lemonade... there's cotton candy skies and carnival cotton candy too... these are the magic moments of the season that are turned into memories that will carry us a lifetime.

 And today, as I walked the path I do each morning, I sat for a moment in the dewy grass, paused to tie my shoe, and it was then that the wonder of a newly sprouted pink and prickly thistle sent me spinning back in time, and rekindled the passion deep within me of all the magic that each and every summertime brings.  Happy Summer beautiful you, and may we always remember to remember... the little things.  xoxo

Comments

[Relyn]

I'm wondering how you are? You've been away so long.

[Relyn]

Knock. Knock. Still missing you.

[Lindsay]

It is the little things isn't it? I've been so enjoying the fact that my new place of employment has organic milk and gourmet coffee for all the employees to enjoy. It is a small gesture of thanks and saves us $$ during this bare economic time ... it is the little things that wowed us as children isn't it? Thanks for reminding me :)

[Relyn]

It was good to hear from you, sweet friend. I've missed you.

[rhayne]

And happy Autumn to you, my dear friend! I didn't catch this post before I went away, so I am reminiscing now about the joys of summer as we head into my most favourite season of all! And I wonder how you are doing? I think a phone call is in order. There is so much I want to share with you.
I miss you so much. And I love you dearly.
hugs and kisses and hugs and kisses and hugs and kisses and hugs and kisses!!!

[Relyn]

I had to stop by and tell you that your comment made me hum with happiness. Dizzy with pleasure like a bee drunk on nectar. Love you.

[Relyn]

Oh, you wonderful you. You've captured summer perfectly, marvelously, gorgeously. Your words make me long for more. You make me want more and more of your life-filled descriptions.

I've missed you.

[susan greene]

Oh such lovely summer stories and I love the flower.
Hugs,
Susan

[linni]

love love love the new banner...and all the blues!!! yummie! xx

[darlene]

oh yes ... summer, she is a beaut isn't she :-) beautiful photo honey, xoox

[Amy Jo]

Very cool flower!

[Christina]

Oh I agree! Thank you, Relyn! It is indeed a beautiful place you have over here. My favorite Georgia O'keefe quote, glorious art and golden words.
I could get very used to it around here.
xo

[Julie]

pretty!!

[tracey]

neat shot!

[linni]

I LOVE that flower!!! It's absolutely exquisite! Like you! Teehee....love it!!! xx

[PixieDust]

I can feel the warm summer breeze, and hear my puppy snoring lazily away...

Happy summer!

(((HUGS))),
Love,
Me

[Melissa G]

Beautiful! Love that color.