summertime blues

I've been eating vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. Listening to the Beach Boys. Swinging in my back yard. Biking to the pool.

It's like I'm twelve years old again, barefoot and suntanned, with newly-minted friends and fresh optimism.

And suddenly I realize that June has slipped by altogether. Evaporated like water in this heat.  

Days like these, my biggest worry is that the days will all slide by this quickly, and leave me nothing to remember. That one day I'll wake up and it will be fall, and I'll have bigger worries than the slippery nature of summer.

 photo by McGallo