August Thoughts

I can't believe that August is here already. It seems like it was just spring, and here we are with one more month of "summer", and then my favorite season ~ autumn ~ will be here! August is a big birthday month on my calendar. My husband's birthday is Saturday, mine is the 14th, and then there are several friends and relatives throughout the month. I have all the birthday cards ready to go, but need to add personal notes to some of them. I'm going to go work on those notes, but for now I'll leave you with an August quote by Charles Dickens from The Pickwick Papers...


"There is no month in the whole year in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes when we remember nothing but clear skies, green fields, and sweet-smelling flowers--when the recollection of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded from our minds as completely as they have disappeared from the earth--and yet what a pleasant time it is! Orchards and cornfields ring with the hum of labour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed the sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue."