Everyone is already talking about the end of summer. Fall is here, they claim, smitten with the idea of less sun and less heat. School is beginning, the leaves are changing, and the days are growing shorter but I refuse to believe it. The days are still full of heat and sun and as I squint my eyes I refuse to believe that autumn has graced us with her presence.
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I waited for so long for summer to come and now that it did I feel that our time together wasn’t enough. So I am trying to enjoy what little time we have left together.
I might not be ready for it to end but the end is coming fast like a train and I already hear it rumbling closer on it’s tracks.
The dry leaves are crunching under my feet as I go out and about and I can’t help but wonder how our lives are changing, always changing. We have accomplished so much and so little at the same time and I am always amazed by the sheer volume of experiences we accumulate while at the same time fretting that it was another summer wasted, as if there could ever be such a thing.
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Isn’t any day I get to spend with my best friend a day full of promise instead of a day frittered away?
Fall is already coming and though it’s not here yet I am already longing for the summer days I got to spend hiking and riding and goofing around.
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| From Smith Rock |
But life never stops living and we never stop changing and moving.
Sometimes words can say so much, but mostly they just say nothing at all. Words are alluringly malleable and can be shaped into wondrously beautiful beings.
I think the forecast said it was going to be in the 90s in Portland today. Yeehaw!
It only got up to 61 here today. I’m not ready for summer to be over either. A few leaves have started to change here and there, but I’m not giving in yet.
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The leaves are changing here! And the rain, it’s here already! Sigh, I guess summer really is over.
I’m dreading the end of summer, too – but looking forward to wearing my boots again!
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Oooh! Boots. I totally forgot about awesome boots, perfect for fall!
Summer is always too fleeting here in the PNW. From the looks of it you’ve been soaking it up to the max with many adventures.
Summer is fleeting. I feel like it just begun and already it’s over.
What a beautiful and well-written post, Sarah.
I totally understand where you’re at as we’re running parallel to one another in life it seems. Everything changes with the start of a new semester and you captured that bittersweet feeling perfectly with your words.
My school starts earlier than yours, so I’m already immersed in all the reading, papers, etc. but as my summer break came to an end, we were cramming everything we could in as well. I keep telling myself it will be worth it when that degree is in hand! =) Hang in there, friend.
Also: you two are such a cute couple. It makes my heart happy seeing the two of you glowing, with smiles as wide as the Grand Canyon on both your faces! =)
((( Hugs )))
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Aww, thank you! It’s a good thing that Vahid makes me happy. I’m totally immersed in school right now too and it’s tough. In fact it was the subject of my new post, haha.
Love love love the title of this post, and the words proceeding it, too. I’ve been fighting my feelings about fall hot on summer’s heels the past few weeks, too, and while I’m not ready to say goodbye to the heat, or give up dreams of jumping into one more lake, one last time (and I’m definitely not ready for ordering my coffee hot vs. iced), I always forget how much I adore fall until I’m standing face-to-face with brilliant trees shimmering their hues of gold and auburn in front of me. I forget so quickly without nature around to remind me how beautiful and hopeful this life is, and just like Portland’s endless trees trading their bright greens for deep burgundies, life never stops living, and we never stop changing and moving, amen.
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Thank you. Summer here is so much more mild than the summers that I grew up with and so the summer we have really are more equal to falls back in California. So I forget that you have actual seasons up here.
As much as I love summer here I do like the fall, when it’s not raining that is. I do like the transitions from each season, even if I don’t love what each season brings. But all we can do is change and move and grow.