Tuesday, July 1, 2014

it's summer now.  a constant warm sweetness in the air.  it's not just a rush of warm heavy air that blows past in a few hours.  it's what i expect now.   i eat a bowl of blackberries for my dinner,  my feet are rough and dirty.  the light sits low and warm until almost 9 o clock.   the sea gulls fly over while i'm sitting on the porch with a limeade and the white of their underbelly glows orange.  the heat sits like a drooly blur above the lake.  the yard is fluffed and green around the edges.  private and cool.  there is always sound.  birds and squirrels and water and voices and the rustle of leaves.

we have hired a painter and his ladders are sitting in the driveway, waiting for the work to start.  i mixed up colors tonight, little pots of paint to find the perfect gray  for the wood that sits along the edges of the stone i love so much.  along the roof.  the windows.  the eaves.  the trim of the little cedar shingled front porch.  i have made the color and i love it.  like a smudge of weathered wood.  i know we need to paint to protect the wood.  but i still want the house to look like a crackly, weather beaten little cottage, worn and cozy.  so the color is an old and faded color, and i'll leave the crooked little door to the front porch peeling and cracked.

it's almost 9 pm. it's not quite twilight.  but the gloaming has begun.  tomorrow we'll wake up in july, that month of freedom and skin.  it is completely summer now.  

10 comments:

  1. Your post is like poetry. Your sentences feel cozy and I love the last passage. Welcome into summer! Christa

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    1. Thank you Christa....we had a long hard winter, so summer feels like a gift this year :)

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  2. Love the quilt. One of my childhood memories is chasing lightning bugs. My cat chases them now. You should see her jump:)

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  3. Beautiful quilt on the line!!

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  4. Your lovely lyrical writing always makes me wish I was there.

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    1. I love these summer nights, jen. But real life slaps me in the face pretty quickly too :)

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  5. I could read what you write all day, its pure bliss,

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  6. A little love - from me to you - across the crazy miles. Hard to believe I walked your Terra Firma only a few months back. I'm glad for Instagram ♥♥♥

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