THIS FUNNY LIFE: "Please Sir, May I Have A Bit More Summer?" ...

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I find it a difficult time when Summer must inevitably and all too soon come to an end. Here on the northern coast of Maine the air has now grown brisker and the waters colder. The September sun sets lower in the sky and the shadows grow longer as the day insists on coming to a close all that much quicker ...

So I find myself once again unable to decide if I am a Summer person or a Winter person. All Winter I dream of days spent in the warm sun ... and in the heat of Summer I long for the chill beauty of deep New England snows. I give this great thought each year and am sure in each season that I know the answer.

I admit, however, that I am never happy to see the end of Summer and never unhappy to see the end of Winter, so perhaps this is telling. Whichever it is, I do not think that I would want to find myself in a place where the seasons never change, where I would never have a new season to look forward to ... or to complain about with my neighbors ... or even to mark and so remember the progress of time.

Still in all, I would not mind turning back the clock a just a month or so to enjoy a bit more Summer.

-- TM

About this photo: "Summer's End - Boothbay Harbor, Maine" - tim mcmahon