Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Summer Time

...and the livin' is easy.
Check out our schmellow sticks

Camping
Flamage
Schmellows

Need I say more?

When I was a kid my family would spend a week or so at Kejimkujik National Park. Mom, dad, brother, cousins, aunt and uncle, and grandparents.

SO MUCH FUN!!!

I thought my cousins were so rich because we stayed in a tent BUT they had a trailer with a tent attached!!

My uncle would haul everybody around the park in the back of his trailer. Each of us perched high in our lawn chairs.

We'd ride our bikes along the path and go swimming in the lake. We'd race and rawk the suspended bridge. We'd stay up late (dusk) and sing songs about Alice the camel and her many humps. I would cuddle up to my blankie and oversized doll mesmerized by the campfire.

In my child memory, we did this all the time. But actually only once according to my parents.

It's been moons since I've tented and enjoyed a good flaming schmellow over a campfire. So when we packed our tent this past weekend and set out to visit with friends parked in the middle of nowhere, spontaneous dancing was had. I reverted to the age of 9 and packed my sparklers, glow in the dark sticks and lick-em-stick-em tattoos.

Best weekend ever. We do it all the time. Giggle.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Summer Lover

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I lie here in anticipation
Soaking you in
My skin glows
From the weight of your heat
Pressed against me
Burning me
The scent of us
Reaching my nostrils
Soothing me
Lying still
Begging for more
You hide behind a cloud
Returning to caress me
Again and again
I absorb you greedily
Not wanting this to end
Again you cloud over
Leaving me behind
Shivering
Yearning to feel your heat once more

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.

I love being warm. I love feeling the heat of the sun on my skin. So I thought about how it would be if the sun were a lover.