Summer....

saturday is....

sitting out on the back porch having my morning coffee

listening to the cicadas sonnet 

watching the big puffy clouds roll by against the brightest blue skies....

a ghost of a breeze flutters across my skin every once and while

not nearly  as much as id like though....

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when i crawled out of bed this morning into the kitchen sat a big bowl of big  ripe red and orange tomatoes (Given to us by a friend who has a farm)

this will be the first time this summer i've had grown riped tomatoes off the vine

(its one of the best things about living in the Midwest) fresh sweet corn and vine riped tomatoes....

iowa is perfect for growing those every summer

they are good to eat with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, some fresh basil and mozzarella cheese

i sometimes will just make a meal out of that for dinner

and im usually the only one who will eat it, lol

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right now it is quiet, the humming from my computer and a neighbor down the street is mowing his lawn...i miss that sound in the winter and i miss the smell of freshly mowed grass when we are deep  in the thrones of winter

so today i will gather my thoughts and collect them

store them into a neatly basket to pull out and revisit

when the winter winds are howling at the doors and windows.....

i will have a place to sit and 

remember

the feeling of summer

XOXO