Monday Musings: End of Summer

Although it's still pretty warm, I'm ready to close this chapter of the year, and start the fall season. I'm feeling a sense of excitement and eagerness to usher in cooler days, autumn flavors and scents and the overall coziness of fall.

For some, saying good-bye to long summer days can bring melancholy. I feel that as well, but mostly gratitude for a few months of time together as a family, slower days, pool days and beach time on our vacation.

I love these quotes about the end of summer:

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away.”

— Sarah Helen Whitman

"“August is like the Sunday of summer.”

— Unknown

"September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures." – Lea Malot

“Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.”

— Sarah MacLean

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.

— Paul Monette

“It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.”

— Ann Patchett

Enjoy these final weeks of after dinner walks, warm nights and mosquito bites.