What an August we have had.....
She has disappointed us these last few years....she's been a bit shy....
But this year she has been at her big, brash, lazy, hazy sultry best...
I don't really do hot and although the beach is lovely there is no shade....
Took a walk to the beach today along the river, it was hot, hot, HOT, with people walking to the beach carrying boards and nets and buckets eager to get there and passing by the beauties of the river bank...Even though I have already made my first batch of blackberry jam there are still blackberry flowers to admire.....
And huge juicy caterpillars iridescent in the summer sun.....
I sought out the shady arbors of the trees......a welcome respite from the heat of the mid day sun....
And spied autumn growing above me.......
all around me the air lay heavy....everything corpulent, lush..everything seemed to have slowed as if we were on the cusp.....this is as big and vibrant and heavy and hot and green as its going to get...
As I have thought many a time, August at her best is a rather brash somewhat vulgar month she is big and blowsy....but i am enjoying her at her most vibrant and blessing every lingering sun beam as we begin the slow descent into my most favourite season....I can just sense it approaching..........
