TEN THINGS I LIKE ABOUT AUGUST

1. High Summer arrives … gloriously, breaking the oppression of July. Days and nights are nearly perfect.
2. Annual week of sessions at New England Yearly Meeting.
3. Homegrown tomatoes. Who needs bacon? Good bread and mayonnaise set them off perfectly. I add a dash of Old Bay in memory of Baltimore.
4. Lobster prices come down.
5. Same-day corn on the cob. Boil it in the same water before or after the lobster. Eat both in the Smoking Garden, where a mess is quite easy to clean up.
6. Apples and peaches at Butternut Farm.
7. Ice cream.
8. Body surfing at Long Sands.
9. Two weeks of swimming laps in the city’s 50-meter outdoor pool while the indoor pool undergoes annual maintenance. On my backstroke, especially, I watching for bald eagles in the distance or count the contrails of jetliners heading for Logan – one a minute.
10. Instead of a profusion of birdsong in the morning, it’s now crickets fiddling in the night, starting a crescendo that will end only with the first killing frost.

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What do you like about August?

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