Labor Day, summer 2009 is officially at an end. I only had to look at my work calendar and see all the Saturday one off events for it to sink in. It's been a great summer, lots of outdoor living, lots of adventures, and for the most part, at the temperature I like best. Today was no exception to the temperature rule. We indulged in an end of summer barbecue at the Rhode Island Kelley's for the southern family and got to hang out with the youngest Kelley's of all. Caroline is tall and elegant and still best friend's with uncle Steve, although Patrick is rising rapidly in the favored male relative stats. (Patrick is, off to London to a master's in applied economics program in two weeks. That was fast. . .) Jack is not a baby anymore at almost two, also tall, more puckish than elegant, and quite content to give the strangers an occasional smile and accept pushes on the swing. Their parents seem happy, although Alisa is experiencing the special kind of misery that can only come with late pregnancy. Only two more months -even though it seems like forever.
And then because I'm competetive and compulsive, Steve and I stopped for a short hike through the Copicut woods, another one of our 60/60. Beautiful, in a diferent late summer kind of way. No color in the trees yet, but everything has that faded look that green leaves get when photosynthesis slows down at the end of the summer but before the fall color change begins. Lots of stone walls on this hike, lots of moss, old cart roads to and from no longer extant farms and cattle pens and lush shrubs and vines on the mown paths. Lots of poison ivy too, but we avoided that. Or at least I did. I can't speak for Steve.
Hike-Ku for Copicut Woods
Walls wending winding
Stone bounded roads meet and part
purpose forgotten.
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