And just like that summer was gone.
No drawn out goodbyes, and long lingering looks back.
The windows are now lowered as the cooler dusk air sneaks in.
A quiet goodbye to the carefree summer bare-feet,
next summer those same small bare-feet will be bigger.
The warm early morning starts that have you throwing open back doors,
the kitchen air still thick from the heat of the day before.
So long summer, with your long golden lit afternoons,
and to the melodic cicadas singing their songs.
Farewell to the invitingly warm sea pools,
with their noisy jostling swimmers.
The pools once more reclaimed,
by those that don’t fear the sharp coolness of the water.
Until next time summer,
so long.
a beautiful farewell..x
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Thanks Jane.
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Cheers to Summer 2013-2014. What a beautiful tribute to a season. Thanks. Many Autumn bring beautiful colours, the aroma of new growth, and fogs that roll out to sunshine.
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I do love Autumn, my favourite season always.
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Our weather has made a sudden (and, truthfully, much appreciated) bid for autumn too this week. It is dark at 7pm, cool enough for long sleeves in the evening, and over this side of the country we are throwing windows open instead of barring them against the sun 🙂 Lovely photos and words xo
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Kari, I think the west has had such a brutal summer this year no wonder you are relishing it. Sydney amazingly really did miss out on the summer extremes that so many other places had. Thankful for that!
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That’s indeed poetry today Brydie. 🙂
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Thank you Rose. x
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I know what you mean. It disappeared so suddenly. Beautiful words, Brydie xx
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ah but she’ll be back 🙂
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A beautiful ode to Summer. Three dangily legs (and cutest) the perfect seasonal image. I will miss the shrill of cicadas, my big one collected not only their shells but caught live ones gently.
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It’s a good skill to have Zena. Too many kids are scaredy pants of cicada’s 🙂
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This is beautiful Brydie. Such poignant words and stunning photographs… I found myself lingering over each one just so I could study the sunlight. Ah, yes. Goodbye to Summer for another year, hello to slow-cooking, warm jumpers and nights by the fire. I do love Winter but I also bid Summer a sad goodbye every year… I stay outside every evening until the rain and cold start beckoning me in xx
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It’s funny the difference in light the seasons have. It’s something I never used to notice but really enjoy it now. Another week and day light saving will end, and the light once more will shift.
Enjoy those evening moments Laura. x
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It arrived here today 🙂 sort of, sandals, shirt, toes out for the first time since goodness knows when. Must be your summer that has sneaked off… so the answer is… be like the Arctic Tern and follow the summer wherever it goes, loved your prose poem and the photos Brydie ! xx
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Thank you Joanna. I do love matching words, photos and weather together 🙂
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Arivaderci summer and hopefully you are a long time coming back! I am completely enamoured of autumn and all of its cooler, more precipitous possibilities and watching the brilliantly coloured leaves fall from the trees and nature tucking herself in for winter, collecting wood for the wood burning stove and knowing that soon the house will be toasty and warm (this time delightfully so rather than “I am sticking my head in the fridge!” so…) and redolent with the scent of baking. We can plant out trees and they might just have a chance of surviving and we suddenly learn the true value of wool all over again…No wistful goodbyes to summer here on Serendipity Farm but a “hail hearty good fellow!” To autumn/winter and all that they entail 🙂
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Autumn and winter is delicious in Tasmania, delicious!
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Positively scrumptious 🙂
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Beautiful picture of your children. Your summer seemed to go by faster than our winter!
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We are lucky here that we do get four reasonably distinct seasons. A fiercely cold winter no, but a hot summer, and cooler spring and autumns always, which I love.
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Beautiful words and pictures.
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Beautiful words…there is a bittersweetness in the air as summer departs even though the other seasons are beautiful as well. Lovely photography.
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You make me long for heat and that is unusual indeed! I wish winter would take the hint and leave so graciously- but no like an unwanted overdue guest it just lingers on and on.
Beautiful post!
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I’m going to miss bare feet over the coming months…. The autumn leaves will make up for it a little bit.
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Spring here. Daffs and tulips and spring cabbages and pansies, chives, and birds returning, lawn mowers clouding the air with fumes, children playing outside again, and sunset long after dinner dishes are washed and put away. Love it!
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beautiful, beautiful. And thank you for sending summer in this direction, slowly, slowly.
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Hi Brydie, this is beautiful. I have just reblogged it. It sums up the suddenness of summer ending here in Perth just perfectly. Thanks Michelle
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I’m sad to see summer go. I’m not a huge fan of cold weather but the food is great. Love that first pic Brydie!
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