Summertime....one of my all time favorite songs. My favorite version is Fantasia's. As a child summertime meant being out of school, sometimes being bored, delighting in a trip to the pool or the beach.
As I got older summertime meant coming home after nine months away at college, trips with my friends and some really good times. The beauty of the mountains during this season became a passion. I came to know that this was the season of some pretty incredible things.
THE BEACH - My first memory of what could happen to you there was to step on a lit cigarette tossed in the sand and then the jellyfish. It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I figured out I could get sunburned and I walked out on the beach coated in baby oil and came in with blisters. God hasn't gotten me back for that one yet. Thank you Lord!.........Then came the stories of sharks.....after JAWS my trips to the water were limited.
I have so many special memories of the beach and am sad for those who have never been there.
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