While Facebook's all abuzz about apple cider and donuts and hoodies, I'm not ready to give in just yet. I have kind of a love/hate relationship with fall. I love the colors and the crispness and the apples and the cider, but I just hate to see summer end AND it also means that winter is on its way (and winter always comes way too soon and lasts way too long). It's bittersweet, I guess.
I learned awhile back (well, maybe just a couple years ago...) that it's inevitable. Summer will end whether I like it or not and fall will come...then the dreaded winter. And I can be mad about it, but it doesn't stop it from coming. Or I can come to terms with it and try to enjoy it. It's hard, though. I have to do a lot of talking myself into it. So, I'm trying...but I don't think I'm there quite yet.
Summer, don't go! I want more of this...
View of the Bay on bike ride from Petoskey to Charlevoix
My lovely parents
Surprise along the way...c'mere deer
View from a coffee shop in Charlevoix...made it under cover just in time for a rainstorm!
Mackinaw City
Well, we had planned on walking the Bridge...
...until we got up at 5am and it was cold and rainy and we wimped out! Dad and Grandpa braved it, though! Good thing we didn't actually buy the t-shirts! ha!
I got to ride on a fire truck! :)
Oh summer, don't go. Not yet.
