Summer Is Not Over

I know school is scheduled to start back next week and everyone is talking about how quickly summer has passed.  I just want to take a moment to remind us that summer is not over.  God schedules the seasons not the school board. 

No one says that spring is over when spring break ends. Fall doesn't begin and end with Thanksgiving break.  Why does poor summer get the shaft? It is ,after all, my favorite time of year.

I love early evening's pop-up thunderstorms,the smell of dirt as it drinks in the rain and the aroma of freshly cut grass mingling with smoke from fired up grills. I enjoy looking out at the lush green of full trees and the sparkling waters of a swimming pool. I appreciate walking barefoot in the yard and then performing the "hot sidewalk dance"  to get back into the cool house.

I like stepping out on the deck and hearing the different sounds as people work on various projects in their yards and gardens. There is almost nothing as pleasant as listening to birds sing while sitting outside with my morning coffee.

Summer beckons us to dream. It calls us to plan vacations. It tempts us to recall our youth and those lazy days where nothing was more important than our Coppertone(motor oil? butter? baby oil?) tans.

Fall has it's beautiful ever changing leaves; in the spring it's exciting to see the first blooms and buds as everything wakes from the long winter's nap but summer entices us with it's aromas, it's sounds, it's beauty, and it's freedoms.

These pleasures will not cease when the school bell rings.
Summer break may be ending but summer is not.