When simple is very good
August 4, 2009
Five of my favorite simple summer pleasures
1- Making and enjoying a simple salad comprised entirely of things from your very own garden*
2- Drifting off to sleep to the sound of crashing waves, laughing children and the sand moving underneath your improvised pillow
3- An early morning run when a soft breeze blows and smells faintly of honeysuckle
4- Taking a solitary Sunday walk to an ice cream shop and deciding the abundance of calcium makes your double cone an appropriate if not sensible choice for lunch
5- Plunging yourself into the Atlantic and feeling the nerve endings on your skin jump to attention as your body slowly cools and drifts with the sea
What are your simple summer pleasures?
*My tomatoes are finally in and boy were they worth the wait! Everything else in my garden has been growing like crazy from all of this rain.
August 4, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Going golfing by myself. Seriously my favorite thing to do.
August 4, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I don’t really get to do it now, but I love driving with the windows down and sunroof open. Or walking along any body of water.
August 4, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Cold beer + hot sun = there is nothing better. At all. EVER.
August 4, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Spending evenings chatting with my friends on my balcony.
August 5, 2009 at 3:02 am
sitting on the beach after work, no one left on the beach, watching the boys play in the water.
August 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Sounds heavenly. And calcium is always important, of course. Glad to see you are taking good care!
August 9, 2009 at 4:21 am
So will you have me back?
August 17, 2009 at 6:11 pm
simple summer pleasures:
1) ice cream
2) lakeshore walks
3) tanning
4) going to the dog beach
5) it not being -40 degrees (stupid chicago winters…)