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Saturday, October 6, 2012

summer smells like sweat. fall smells like cloves.

they talk about summer romance but summer doesn't have any romance. summer has sweat.


summer has mosquitoes. and mosquito bites. it has poison ivy.

summer has summer camp, which has mosquitoes. and mosquito bites.  and poison ivy.

it has sunburn. it has cicadias. summer has not being able to get the kids to sleep cuz it's so dang light out.

summer has vacation, which sounds good on the surface, but summer vacation is either boring (mom, there's nothing to do!) or you get home from summer vacation and you need a vacation to recupe from vacation.

summer has sweat.

fall, on the other hand, has cloves.

it has hickory and wood smoke and caramel lattes. (it has caramel everything, if you're creative enough.)

it has pie in the oven and soup on the stove.


it has what, if friendship and love had a scent, what that scent would smell like.


it has cloves.