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The Beauty of Summer

20 Fantasically beautiful things about summer #summeractivities

My front porch

“Summertime and the living is easy”….  I can’t get this song out of my head today.  Do you remember summer as a kid?  Long, carefree days.

Clematis buds  20 fantastically beautiful things about summer

clematis buds

Playing outside until the street lights came on.  A huge stack of library books.  Riding your bike until your legs hurt.  Dropping into bed at night, exhausted.

Moon rise, 20 fantastically beautiful things about summer

moonrise

My early childhood home had a tin roof.  We didn’t have air conditioning, so all of the windows were always open.

Pink spirea, 20 fantastically beautiful things about summer

Spirea

I vividly remember laying in bed and listening to summer rain on the tin roof.  No sound like it.

Yellow primrose, 20 Fantastically beautiful things about summer.

primrose

20 Fantastically Beautiful things about Summer:

1. Explosions of color: flowers, sunsets, fireworks

2. Physically hard work in the garden.

3. Fresh fruits and vegetables.

4. Lazy days to read long, hard books…or easy fluff books 😉

5. Summer weddings

6. The smell of rain on hot pavement

7. Celebrating our country’s independence, sparklers, fire works

8. Kids home from college

9. Adult children who decide to spend their summer vacation with their families  <3

10. Shade trees

11. Summertime smells that float on the air: charcoal grill smoke, heady flower fragrances like honeysuckle, suntan lotion

12. Breezes through the windows

13. Ice cream cones!!!!!

14. Reading, eating, dreaming, talking on the porch swing

15. Watermelon

16. Camping, campfires, marshmallows, s’mores, bug spray

17. Lemonade

18. No school!!

19. Water-sprinklers, swimming pools, the ocean

20. His mercies that are new every morning.  I’m so glad that’s not just for summer!

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
    for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23

Please tell me your favorite parts of summer or a favorite childhood summer memory.

Have a beautiful day!

 

 

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