Summer Solstice

We all know that days will be getting shorter and cooler...there will be fewer community activities for enjoying the outdoors. Actually, though, it seems that every new school year brings the warmest of days! Students return home reeking of that stale, sweaty odor of school. Heck! Dayton even canceled a few days of classes last week, due to the extreme heat, since beginning their new year-round school program.

This past Tuesday evening, I was traveling back into town, returning from a real estate company seminar, which I might add, was a most inspiring and humorous session. As I drove westward into Celina, I noticed an awesome sunset in the horizon, just beyond the west bank of Grand Lake St. Marys. It was, by far, one of the largest, brightest, red-hot [orange] visions of the Sun I had ever visualized. And, I have witnessed many sunsets in my life…here and from the Gulf Coasts of Florida. It was so beautiful. However, it was setting quite a bit further south than those we're used to seeing in the midst of a full-blown summer.

As I basked in the beauty of the moment, it dawned on me that it was only 8:30 in the evening. This made me sad, as I am NOT one who favors autumn the most. Most all of my friends tell me that fall is their favorite season. Mine is springtime, when sweet tender flowers and fresh tiny leaves are forming in the ground and on the trees. Grass amazingly starts sprouting full and rich, and deeply green. The air seems fresh, clean, and warm…an obvious change from the bitterly cold frozen air of winter. Fall just reminds me that winter is right around the corner, and events and activities of the summer of 2007 will soon be a memory...a part of Celina's history.

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