Summer Skies

As a young boy growing up on a farm in Michigan one of my fondest memories is of running out into a hay field and lying on my back looking up at the huge puffy white clouds and imagining whatever shapes my imagination perceived. I would lay there rolling in the hay, seeing battleships, airplanes and herds of wild buffaloes stampeding across the sky                                                                                                                            

Then we moved into the city and I seldom saw a real summer sky. 

However, years later I moved west and now am fortunate enough to live within the mountain’s shadow.  Here in the summer the skies are often azure blue with those wondrous puffing white clouds billowing high above my head and once again I can see the battleships, the airplanes and those stampeding herds of buffaloes racing to the horizon

            Oh, we have our days when the sky is clouded over and everything is grey and then too we have days when the sky is a bright blue without a cloud in sight.

 However, almost always those days are followed with one with those clouds that cause our imaginations to once again soar with marvelous visions and imagined shapes to provide us with hours of wonderment.

            Living within the mountain shadows has many advantages and pleasures and summer skies is most definitely one of them

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