As I sort through all the photos of the recent months, I am already nostalgic. I wish you can stay longer. I had a wonderful time with you.
Who would not have a wonderful time? Birds chirping, cool mornings, long days, bright sunshine most of the time. Good, long morning walks, refreshing long drives, beaches, shorts and tank tops, sandals and flip-flops. Sunglasses, sand, sandals, sea, skirts, squirrels, starry nights. Brightly colored flower, juicy- red watermelons, barbecues, ice cold lemon juice, and my favorite this year: Selecta ice cream, buko salad flavor.
A sister’s visit. College reunion for me in Canada, high school reunion for my husband in Palm Desert, California. Meeting relatives and friends we have not seen for thirty or forty years.
A weekend in Toronto, a week-long foray into the national sites in Washington DC, a day trip and tour of Annapolis, an unplanned drive to Gettysburg. Sightseeing in the Luray Caverns of northern Virginia and a drive through Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park. My first drive on the Bay Bridge, turned at the first exit and promptly drove back.
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There were downers, too: medical appointments, phlebotomy every week, dental appointments and procedures (ouch!), stem cell transplant, hepatitis b. Stop this drug, take this drug. Delay stem cell transplant. Waiting, hoping, waiting, hoping, waiting…
So long, Summer. Thank you for the good days – they will be kept in my “happy memory file.” Thank you, too, for the not-so-good days – they affirm that I am alive!
Cheers! Here’s hoping I’ll be around to welcome you next year.
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.~James Dent
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