My Favorite Things–August

Hot deck beneath your bare feet...

August comes from the Latin word “Augustus,” which has to do with increasing.  The word “august” is also an adjective which means majestic or marked by dignity. Certainly the month August is increasingly hot, and deserves respect, especially if you’ll be spending a lot of time outdoors.

We often think of August as the month that school starts, the last vacation fling, the last month of true summer, and the hottest month of the year.  August can have the feel of an ending as the year slides out of the carefree days of summer and into serious, “let’s get back to business” fall.

So, let’s pause to pay our respects to August.  Here’s a list of my favorite August things:

• the smell of new mown grass
• the heat, like the warm sweaty hand of a playmate on your skin
• Sandy beaches under clear blue skies
• The smell of coconut oil
• The swishing noise that sprinklers make
• The droning of cicadas
• Big fat bumblebees, buzzing in the late summer blooms
• Giant yellow sunflowers
• Watermelon, cool and crisp, at a picnic
• Checkered tablecloths
• Iced lemonade in a glass pitcher
• Bins of bright colored school supplies
• The stippled light and shadow under shade trees in the afternoons

What are your favorite August things?

Posted by:
 Trudy Nutter