234/365: Fluffy

234/365: Fluffy, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

August 22nd

The summer is all but over, so walking in the fields feels like a last, hasty gulp of sweetness. Even though I'm not a child anymore and don't have to go back to school, inside I still count the days until the first of September. I can feel the air getting just a little colder, the buzz of the bugs and crickets in the grass getting wilder...the earth holding dampness in like it never does in the heat of the dog days. Rich, black soil under the soles of my shoes, and cobwebs flying the breeze with seeds and pale butterflies.