COME ON IN...

it's hot outside! I'm not kidding. It was 111.4 today. Time to find a puddle or a pond to sit in. Just sit. Do nothing. Just sit. Wait for the evening when it drops down to...85. Yup, it's going to be good sleeping tonight.

But it's a dry heat.

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Just getting into the swim with this week's Sepia Saturday. Someone hand me a cold one. A block of ice would do.

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Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

SUMMERTIME: Part 14

Summertime is nearly over. Months of anticipation down to weeks. Fall will soon be here. Some leaves have already started to turn. Soon the abundance of color will be upon us.

So let's end this summertime series with three "familiar" people, the Kallman family.

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Little George Kallman has his back to us. Lorena Aina Beck Kallman stares at the camera, her daughter Gladys by her side. There's no indication as to where on when this shot was taken. I imagine it was taken by Alfred Kallman, the patriarch of the family.

Water is a big part of summer. We play in it, we refresh ourselves on a hot day with it, we long for it when the ground is parched in the summer sun. And we create memories with it.

A warm summer afternoon playing in a stream. Good times. Good times.

SUMMERTIME: Part 13

Summertime is meeting friends on a warm day at the swimming hole beneath trees covered in Spanish moss. Your senses will create a memory you can return to for the rest of your life.

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On the back of this photo is written:

Swimming Hole

1945

Florida

I'm guessing there's a sign on the banks saying "Watch out for gators and water moccasins." Mind you, I'm just guessing and my guess is based on nothing more than the stories my mother told me about living in Banana River, Florida in the 1940s.

SUMMERTIME: Part 8

Summertime is remembering the water's fine so have fun and just go with the moment.

Tomorrow: buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks

SUMMERTIME: Part 7

Summertime is spending the day by the river without a phone.

Tomorrow: letting go