Photographic Ode to Summer

As it is currently blizzarding outside, (and me with no shovel!), I guess it's time to face the fact that summer is over.  As such, I thought it would be fun to post some of my favourite pictures from a season so short and so sweet that it deserves a post all its own.

To summer:

Were you really real,

Or did I just imagine you?

A wrinkle in the last 365 days.

Though Winter crowds you constantly,

I cherish your fleeting presence

Like the glimpse of an endangered animal.

Ok, so I'm not a poet, but I hope you enjoy the pics anyway.

Sometimes people want to know about the picture, so here is a brief description.

1. Basketball hoop holding snow in June snowstorm. No, that is not a typo.  June!

2. The playhouse where I played house as a child.

3. Erica and Jasper on the pasture round-up.

4. My cousin's boots on branding day.  Could be a poster shot for 101 uses for Duct Tape.

5/6. Ed's Aunt's backyard pool in Brooks.

7/8. Daisies and Mountain Biking at Canada Olympic Park.

9.  Dandelions.

10. Let's just call it "Contemplation".

11. The old milking barn.

12.  Kayaking at Dusk

13. funnel cloud over Calgary(?)

14.  Perfect form in a four year old diver

15.  A charcoal sketch by Erica, "Cattle Drive"