Summer nights

  Even though we are not officially in summer yet. We spent the evening before bedtime outside in the backyard. The girls had their baths and I had cut some grass. The girls ask if they could come out and jump on the trampoline. So out they all came and sat in the evening of the end of this warm day jumping and laughing . It was so pleasant. I sat in one of the lawn chairs relaxing and thinking I can remember summer evenings as a child.
     We would sit out in the yard and play while the adults would talk about the days events or what needed to be done the next day. I remember running through the grass looking for lightning bugs or blowing dandelions all over. Those were simple days, most of those family members are gone now. The few that are left dont live any where near us. So the children dont get the family gatherings like I did as a child or like the older ones did.
    If I sit quiet enough and close my eyes I can hear the horses whinnying in the distance and the frogs croaking or crickets chirping. I miss those things. But they still live in my memory along with all those special people who shared those moments with me.
                                                           Ciao