Dragonfly Design

Well, tell me that I am not the only one, we all felt that crispness in the air.  Sure I was on the beach with the sun warming my face and body a few days ago, but I did feel it - that air that reminds you of the fall.  The trees that shade us from that warm sun are now starting to turn the shades of the earth, darkening with each passing cold night.  This weekend the signs were there, a crisp leaf crunched under my flip-flop and I knew this would be the last day at the beach - well at least in the scantly clad ensemble I was wearing at that moment.  I knew as my feet crunched a few more leaves that this was the end of summer.  Kind of a passing if you will.... gone.... not returning.....hopefully treasured.  So now I am thinking - did we let this short time of ours fly by without the treasured moments we will remember for a lifetime.  No - it was however a time of healing, a time of change and a time of trying to find myself again under the fog, find that sparkle of personality.  I have come a long way my friends, but I do look forward to feeling whole again.  The days that were sunny we made the best of them - sitting on the beach, the dock and then the beach again.  Enjoying the boat - skiing like we were 20 years old again, but realizing the next day we were not 20 years old and the moans that filled the beach each time they sat down were reality enough.  "We still got it!" the guys would say, "Well we still got a little!" became the motto - the aches and pain were worth every last moan.  And as for the sun or there lacking of this summer - we made the best of it.... a bunch of us hanging at the beach, food, cocktail and the big black cloud on the horizon...."It will go around us!" was the consensus.  WRONG!  How many friends can you fit under a big green beach umbrella?  About eight we figured.  So there was still room for our friends who just got on their boat in the pouring rain starting to head over.  Eventually we headed to the pontoon boat with the roof, food and cocktails in hand of course, the party was not over, we laughed the whole way there.  Good Times - Good Times!  LD driving his bike off the end of the dock with two life preservers attached so the bike didn't sink all the way to the bottom....100% redneck fun!  Mark giving plane rides to all of his buddies - circling the beach and the waves below them.... giving them an experience of a life time!  So there you have it - there were those treasured moments....many of them.  Oh sure, alot of sitting around with sand between your toes, but sometimes it is the simply pleasures of God's green earth and good....no, great friends to share the view.....thanks for the moments.  Peace & Joy, Pattie