Summer Fun!

Wow, it's the middle of August already! We've had a pleasant, albeit short summer in terms of warm weather, but September and October are still ahead, and the Northwest is best in early autumn.

Was 1968 really 40 years ago? Apparently so, since this past weekend John and I went to his HS reunion in Grandview, Washington. We had great fun, and that's given me the extra incentive to attend my own reunion in October. If I could do anything about the passage of time, I'd be avoiding it like the plague, but I'm actually looking forward to seeing which classmates show up for the shindig.

Perhaps my best weekend so far this summer was going to Cannon Beach with my good pal, Kim. It was a perfect trip all around, with requisite long beach walks, great people watching, and an amazing meal at EVOO, Cannon Beach Cooking School. Wandering the beach at low tide was the icing on the cake, with starfish and sea anemones and puffins aplenty.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~Henry James