Summer: It's a wrap!

Celebratory blowing of dandelion seeds! Sam mastered riding her bike this summer!

Sam at Pumpkin Patch: "The BEST slide in the world!"

Trey at Pumpkin Patch, Signal Mtn, TN

Lake Winnie Classic Cars. Trey old enough to "drive!" Oh my!

First day of school: Trey 4th and Sam 2nd.

Life is good laying on a soft bed of grass underneath a big, blue sky!

Summer's End

by Holin Kennen (first verse)

The gates of summer, once open wide like the arms of absent friends
begin to close, haltingly, with rusty hinges creaking in cool mornings.
The fireflies that rose in steaming clouds from humid backyard lawns
have disappeared overnight as though deported to another country,
leaving thrumming cicadas overhead, pulsing like high voltage wires.

Trey learned how to cook pancakes. He said when it comes to cooking: "Breakfast is his specialty."

Lego ship. Pretty amazing details.

Trey learned how to man his own canoe this summer at our annual summer Fall Creek Falls trip with the Patterson extended family.

 better late than never.