taking it into hyperdrive at the end of summer
End of the Fair, 2009
I’ve been waiting to share this until I started feeling a slight bit melancholy, now that my wonderful summery summer is drawing to a close. I had to pull on a sweater this morning, after a block of blazing days, and I can’t ignore the deepening shadows that inform me that the temperatures will drop, the smell of fire will scent the air, and the leaves will turn brown.
At least, in the fiction of my mind. Here in my neck of the woods, the temperatures will swing back up as we’ll celebrate our “true” summer weather, and later will welcome fall and winter’s damp weather that will turn our foliage green and non-crispy again. However, the smell of smoke is indeed in the air, but I am refusing, absolutely refusing to acknowledge the latest SoCal wildfires. Again.
I remember asking my mom, when I was in my early twenties, if those end-of-summer, school-is-approaching blues ever end. “Never,” she said.
OK! So! As the Ventura County Fair (pics here) was a major element in my summer life this year, I want to remind you of the short film I made, Whirl.
Now, let’s take that to another level, shall we?
Thank you to the very-awesome Yooouuutuuube.com!
Now that was fun! I especially enjoyed how I could watch a blown up screen on the bottom left to see the actual photo that was scrolling up.
That was really cool! But I’m crying in my coffee about the abrupt departure of summer over here in the Mitten State. It was at least 80 at the beginning of last week. Then three days ago, on Friday, the bottom fell out.
Hittin’ a high of 68. Yuck.
Oof, I feel you. I never thrived (throve) when I lived in places with “definitive” season changes. I’m a happy 72 degrees year-round kind of general girl. HUGS!
We went to the Evergreen fair this weekend and I made it a point to go look at the quilts. Sure, they were nice, but none so brilliant as the science quilt. RIP summer.