Summer is winding down.  Pretty soon, the leaves with change and then fall.

Last summer was loaded with activity, but was kind of happy, but this summer had more of a melancholy air to it.  This summer started with a bang.  Well, more of an explosion and continued to be kind of trying.  Growing pains, if you will.  Then it took a while to get everything back on track and eventually there were flashes of the brilliant summers I have grown used to having.

Now we’re in the dog days of it.  I’m not really relieved that it is over because summer is about as close as I come to having an actual vacation.  But I’m hoping that next summer will have considerably fewer explosions: