cff September 2013 | Simple and Serene Living

Monday, September 30, 2013

one last gasp

Just when you have finally said good bye to summer. Just when you have donned your first fall clothes. Just when you have purchased your first pumpkins. You come across these.



Sitting proudly in a planter. Snubbing their nose at fall. Saying, aren't I the prettiest shade of geranium you have ever seen?



You sigh, pull your summer sandals back out of your closet, pull on a pair of shorts one more time, and vow to have just that shade of salmon colored geranium on your patio next summer. 

So tomorrow I will face the reality of fall again, but today I am going to raise my face up to the warm sun and pretend it is summer for just one more day. Because PSSSTT!!! tomorrow is October.



 

Friday, September 27, 2013

who is crystal

As I walked the lonely beach one morning on my vacation, I saw this bench.


And I wondered. Who is Crystal? Where has she gone? 


Does she still come here to sit and watch the sea?


If I sit, will she join me? Will I feel her presence?


Like a long lost friend? One who has passed on but still hovers to share the beauty? To watch the endless changing of the tides?


Yes, who is Crystal? I wonder.



 

Monday, September 16, 2013

what's a girl to do?

Do you ever have a To Do list that is so long that you just want to chuck it all, crawl under your covers, and read a good book?

My day is definitely like that today. I want to sit and dream. I want to squish my feet down into the sand again. (Good thing I repainted my toenails right after I took this, because boy, they sure were looking bad)



I want to walk down a long lonely stretch of beach at dawn, while the sky pinkens.



I want to sit on a porch rocking away the hours as I listen to the sound of the waves.


I want to take a ferry ride over to Ocracoke Island


and eat fresh fish on a picnic table under a brightly colored umbrella.


I want to shop for seashells from an old row boat.


I want my only conversation to be with a lonely little shorebird. 


What I don't want to do is this To Do list. But as Mama always said. "Laura, it won't get done by itself."

SIGH!!! Mama's always right. How annoying is that.



 

Monday, September 9, 2013

the sun also rises

over the ocean


and as it does


it brings not only the promise of a beautiful new day,


but the knowledge that a whole new chapter in life is about to begin.

Wish I could transport you all here to enjoy this with me.