*Fall will always and forever remain my truest most favorite and oh so wonderful seson.
But Summer... oh summer, we have had fun, but I can see you slipping slipping slipping slowly away. The evenings are cooler, the days shorter, and I believe this will be the last big summer weekend in summer events for us.
Summer has always held a special place in my heart. Not because of the hot sunny days (I hate the HOT) or because the sun stays out longer ( I much prefer dark candlelight fall evening listing to sarah, drinking a great wine, and breathing the cool crisp air of fall) but regardless, it is still a special time. Special because the summer of 2001 ( I think) was probably the most funest and most enjoyable season EVER for me. It was the summer I had finally ended a pathetically degraded and worthless relashionship of 4 years with a moron (don't blame me he hid this fact from me for like 3 years and 364 days) the world was my oyster, I considered becoming a lesbian, I joined the cast of Grease, I stayed out till 2 am every night after rehearsals were over ( mostly just laying on the beach with some of the funest people i have ever met playing guitar) and still got up at 5 for work,I was introduced to Dave Matthews and will never be the same again, I experienced life and the way I always want to live it for the first time, I realized you don't have to be normal ( and actually it's way better to not be) I figured out you do not need a 9-5 job with good pay and benefits ( that sucks your soul) to be fulfilled, that you need a lot less money than you think to be truly happy, that you do not need a huge house to raise a family, that you can do ANYTHING your heart desires and you put your mind to, that their are very generous only children out there, oh and I met Jer.
So summer still holds that nostalgic feeling of that first true summer for me, if that makes any sense. So as I do so look forward to fall and all it brings, I still bid goodbye to this summer with a wee bit of regret, did I do everything I hoped to have done? No, but there really isn't ever going to be enough hours in the day to, but I still think it was pretty smashing. Here are a few pic's from today.... auntie Caitlin and Uncle paul came for a one day visit from Calgary and after lunch we headed out to the crazy cool park they built by my parents house (No plastic! It's all raw materials) and took some pics.... enjoy, tommorow the PNE!
