Davis Park Beach Breeze

Davis Park Beach Breeze, originally uploaded by Chris S Thorpe.
Now THAT is a sea breeze! Long Island's afternoon heat has the classic southwest winds off the ocean cooling things down at the beaches.

Bye To Summer

Bye Summer, originally uploaded by Chris S Thorpe.
Say it isn't so.....

Summer Steps Down

Labor Day is an annual benchmark. For years, when the first Monday of September rolls around, I have pointed to the fact that September 21st marks summer's official end. Lately though I have become resigned to the fact that things do feel quite different the day after Labor Day. The beach is empty, the school buses are running (or rather stopping in front of you!), the mornings are cooler, the temperature drops much more quickly after an earlier sunset and it's more about football than baseball. For better or worse, change is in the air.

BTW: Happy Labor Day.

Summer's End?

Can it really be September? Does my calendar show Labor Day Weekend? How fair is it that the blur of summer's warmth so quickly crashes into the cool of September.....?

Flowers??

"Who me?" "I didn't eat any flowers...not me, must have been some other baby deer".