August 14:: Country Fair
Posted on | August 15, 2010 | 8 Comments
Still on the August Break and posting every day over at flickr.
Yesterday we went to a country fair. Fun. Sun + sun, livestock, lemonade, maple cotton candy, ribs, tractor + truck pulls, pig races and rides. Sprout’s first carousel ride = total glee. An awesome day, except: my gimpy ankle and the long drive home.
Today I feel nostalgic for summer, even though it’s here still. I hate that it’s ending. I’m not ready for the yellow leaves that are already on the ground; the cricket songs; the shooting stars. I want the live long light and languor of July a little longer. Although the peaches now are making me smile, and the promise of apples soon. Today the sky is pale, pale. The color of sun on cement; the color of white with shadow. The color of a day slipping by with wind in the trees. I want to nap. There are things I must do: two chapters, an InDesign project, always a to-do list. Two weeks more of summer and then who knows. Everything upended, likely. Everything different. I don’t remember how to be in class. Don’t know, yet, still, if I will be. So it goes.
How are the last weeks of your summer being spent?
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August 15th, 2010 @ 1:37 pm
oh, baby pig races! i’ve never seen anything funnier in my life…
August 15th, 2010 @ 8:42 pm
Love the photos, it looks like you guys had so much fun. You still don’t know about school??? Oh, I hope this week brings the good news!
My summer is over. I start work tomorrow. I have meetings every day this week and then I begin with student a week from tomorrow.
I am still in denial believe it or not.
August 15th, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
Good luck Meg!!!
August 15th, 2010 @ 9:45 pm
i do not look forward to the end of summer,
i feel like i am still waiting for it to begin.
sigh.
how could i have let it slip away like this.
and i love the photo of the little guy’s curls…so cute…
August 16th, 2010 @ 12:09 am
The end of Summer in FL is still a long way off (no kiddos in school=only the actual weather to tell you when summer is gone) BUT I remember too well the ache I would feel in my heart this time of year in WNY. We always went to the fair when I was a kid, and then…school. As an adult I would experience such a deep overwhelming emotion that I still can’t name. I would be outside with the hot sun shining on my face. The sky would be an incredible shade of bright clear blue and the breeze would have a distinct note of chill hidden in it somewhere, barely detectable almost like an afterthought. There is nothing like that. I would fly North to experience that every year if I could. Have time (if not interest) for a funny story about a tractor pull? Ray is a “tractor pull” kind of person. I am not. I am a “going to a play” kind of person. When we were dating 74,000 years ago he wanted me to go to the annual tractor pull. I agreed only if he would go to a play with me. I went. It was what I expected. Took him to a play (can’t remember the name! It was a mystery–nothing “out there”). At intermission before anyone even left the auditorium I asked how he was enjoying it. “Well, it ain’t no tractor pull” he said a little too loudly. Everyone around us roared!! It was funny! (Did you chuckle?)
August 17th, 2010 @ 12:19 am
I am enjoying the last days of winter, seeing the days grow longer gradually and once in a while being able to wear one less layer out. For us, spring officially begins on Sept 1. I am so ready for it. Some days, just thinking about having dinner on the balcony with a glass of white wine and a warm, coastal breeze blowing (we are so blessed to live right by the ocean) brings a smile to my face.
August 17th, 2010 @ 11:15 am
The boys look so pensive in the pictures on mommy and daddy’s shoulders. Makes me wonder what they were watching
End of summer=start of good weather in SF and more importantly, moving into our new house after a year of living out of a few suitcases… So end of summer is a good thing this year. Though I’d take a few more weeks of summer in your part of the world!
August 17th, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
so funny how little boys get so serious in front of big machines … as if their inner “man” is saying, “who does that guy think he is? let me get on that … i’ll show him how to drive it.”
Love it.