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I told Sydney that fall doesn’t start until the new shows come on television, and that it has absolutely nothing to do with the weather. It was a joke, but, i really do want to hold off on fall off for a little longer.  Yes…i can see the signs of fall all around me. The nights have been cooler, leaves have begun to change colour. The evenings come sooner. I can see all of this…and still.  Well, i just don’t want to look at it too hard.  I want to taste every last drop of summer sweetness.

I have this calendar that lists some of the holidays in New Zealand. I noticed that today is father’s day for the NZ dads. I wonder if they get a new wool sweater and a meat pie.

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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.

~Emily Dickinson

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This photo is from last week’s trip with Casey to see Moonrise Kingdom.  Good movie. The seats in this theatre are totally plush and rocking.  Gotta do that again.

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I saw this lady this evening that had the prettiest colour of pants.  They were in between a magenta and purple. I just needed to write that.

This morning, Sydney and I drove into Portland to go to REI and Patagonia. Syd did well at REI, coming home with gortex shoes for harvest work along with some wool socks. I saw some boots there by keen…oh man, i have a thing for boots.  leather…soft leather.  We found absolutely nothing at Patagonia. (no, i didn’t get the boots, didn’t even try them on.)

We went by a big fountain while we walked the few blocks between stores. Some people were there in their swim suits, sunning on towels, and lots of small children with bigger hovering people next to them were in the water. Let me tell ya’; it was really crowded all around this fountain area. It was like a scene from the beach on sandcastle day.

Our last venture out for the day was to New Season’s Market for supper and to purchase a few groceries. We both had hotdogs. I go through this every summer.  At some point, i just feel this need to have a hotdog. I talked about it enough today that Sydney had to have one too.

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Peter and Casey are in New Zealand. They are living one day ahead of me and they are also living in late winter going into spring, seeing different stars than i can see. We are at least on the same planet.

Peter discovered upon arrival that his cell phone wouldn’t work. He found out that New Zealand dropped the CDMA coverage and switched to 3G only. His Ipad works. He loves his simple, voice-calls-only phone. He is going to need to get another phone before his next trip to NZ. He has been totally resisting the smart phone purchase. I used to want a smart phone, because i thought it was a cool gadget.  But, i have changed my mind, and realize i can live without it.

I, like many people, have been buying too many things that i don’t need in my life. Some things, i don’t use, or i am using unwisely, or depend on too much. It’s in my lifetime that people once lived a life without computers or television. Over all, these things haven’t made life on earth any better. Mainly because they are used in a way, in households, that is adding to physical, and mental, and social deterioration of the people in the house, and especially of the children. Parents have given their parenting over to TV programs, commercials, the World Wide Web, and other electronic gadgets.

Eh…that’s enough talk about this.