Posted by: Bethany
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~Russel Baker
The temperature has been in the high nineties for days. The laundry smells and bugs manage to creep inside my house, despite all attempts at keeping them in their proper outdoor habitat. The power bill skyrockets. What can I say? It’s summer. We suffer. And we love it!
I love spring. The flowers blooming. The birds singing. The warm breezes after the chilly weather of winter has left. The rain showers.
I love fall. The crisp air. The cool weather following the sweltering summer heat. The crunch of leaves underfoot. The smell of firewood in the air.
But my mostest favoritest season of all is still summer. To this day, I can’t quite figure it out. It’s hot. It’s humid. It’s miserable….but I love it.
Being a teacher, and having vacation time during the summer definitely contributes to this. But it’s more than that.
It’s something to do with drippy popsicles running down my kids faces, fireworks on the Fourth of July, softball games, roasting marshmallows, sleeping in a tent, wallowing in the creek all day long, eating fresh tomatoes, blueberries, and squash, kids running through sprinklers, and flags waving around.
It’s grilling hamburgers, and chicken, and zucchini. It’s spending all day reading. It’s fireflies and crickets. It’s the smell of sunscreen and the warm feel of a beach towel when you are all wet, watermelon seed spitting contests, making homemade lemonade, drinking lots of ice water.
It’s cool sunglasses and flip flops. It’s homemade ice cream and strawberry shortcake and sno-cones, and playgrounds, sand between your toes and the smell of grass being cut. It’s the sound of the National Anthem and Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Yep. Summer is beautiful!
Written for The Carnival of Beauty, The Beauty of Summer @ Onward and Upward.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I think summer is boycotting the UK! After our very hot April it has been rather wet here- although thankfully not cold.Maybe as a pregnant lady I should be glad for the lack of sweltering days! Only twelve more weeks………
July 13th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Oh crumbs! How did I manage to write that three times? Dur!
July 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
No problem, Susanna! I can fix it!
I know you’ll be glad for the weather to cooperate with your being pregnant! Last summer, I was miserable!
12 weeks will go by fast!