The Last Days of Summer

The last days of summer, at least as far as school goes. Some of us still have the heat to contend with for several more weeks. But like these young people, who were enjoying a relaxing day at the beach before going back to school and work, we can all find creative ways to cool off.



How do you cool off on hot days?

St. Martin's Summer

As swallows turning backward
When half-way o'er the sea,
At one word's trumpet summons
They came again to me -
The hopes I had forgotten
Came back again to me.

I know not which to credit,
O lady of my heart!
Your eyes that bade me linger,
Your words that bade us part -
I know not which to credit,
My reason or my heart.

But be my hopes rewarded,
Or be they but in vain,
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have gathered in the grain -
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have not lived in vain.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson