A fine summer day today. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and I didn't feel a single raindrop all day long. It's been a long time since we've had a day like that. Lucky for me, I got to spend nearly the entire day outside and enjoying it. Playing in the plants at BCG, walking the dogs and some quality pony time made today pretty fantastic. 

I went for a little drive tonight around the back roads of Tamworth and Sandwich... something I was very fond of doing just after I got my license and had the time to do it. I live in a really beautiful place, I have to say. Winding dirt roads, wooden bridges over idyllic brooks, and views of the mountains and the moon that would make most people drool. Honestly, looking at all of it tonight, I could have used a bib. I have lived here my entire life and I am so thankful for that. I can say that I grew up in one of the most beautiful places on Earth and really, really mean it. 

Strawberry jam

on saltine crackers

the only snack she could think of

and one I ate 

too much of. 

Summer days spent

at the Finley house

the scent of the chlorinated pool

seeping into everything

and I loved every minute.

Back then 

the game of Life

was just that - 

a game.

Played on an ancient board

on an even older floor

in a house with hidden passageways

and doors too small for a grown up

to fit through.

We spent mornings at the barn

and afternoons on the hill

inventing games and playing with toys

that belonged to some other child

who lived in some other time. 

That house is gone now,

and so is the pool.

Torn down and re-built into something

nowhere near

the original. 

So many pieces of childhood

gone in that very same way.