Tuesday, July 2, 2013

mown hay should really be a perfume.


It really should. 

I would bottle that scent up and put it away for a December day, when I would take it out and smell golden fields while I sighed and watched the bleak grey landscape of winter out my window. 

It's summer. The golden time; the hay bale time; the season of blushing roses, straw hats, raspberry bushes plump with their harvest, and barefoot walks through waist-high wheat. There are flower seeds in our window sill, freckles on my nose, and sundresses dangling in the breeze on the cloths line. 

Meanwhile, thank-you notes are piled in the mailbox, and my graduation cap hangs in the closet to collect dust until I pull it out in the eve of life and remember that dream called youth. For yes, I am at long last graduated--and the days stretch before me like an entrance. Summer opens her arms, and I feel like jumping into them with "wild abandon."

But that sounds too poetic. I think my summer will be just as oxymoron-ic it always is: crazily quiet and hectically slow, tinted with the scent of freshly mown hay. 

16 comments:

  1. yes, someone really should make hay perfume! I would smell its lovely fragrance all winter long! <3

    Congratulations on graduating! And you should jump into summer with wild abandon! Enjoy life!!

    <3Hannah

    P.S. You might be interested in the devotions {+ giveaways} over on this blog!

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  3. hmm... I cant get the link to publish now...? whatsoever-is-lovely.blogspot.com

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  4. Wow. Every one of these is so wonderfully simple, yes glorious.

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  5. They should make a peppermint perfume. That would be awesome. Or is that already made? Congratulations on graduating! :)

    Smile,
    ~Jenny

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  6. ahhhhmygosh yes someone should defs make that perfume!! woooot! congrats on graduating!! all of these pics are just gorgeous, darling. ohmywordy that lil quote and poems book...that handwriting! soooo beautiful.

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  7. loving your quality over quantity posts lately, dear. this is lovelylovelylovely. wish I was coming to see you this summer! maybe next?

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  8. Did you get a book published? Really cute pictures and writing, Luci! And congrats on graduating!!! Love ya, girl!
    ~Emily :D

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  9. ..What now. Your pictures get better and better I can't even.. it's MAGICAL.

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  10. you and your blog are my favorite. your words- a song.

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  11. what katie said. ^^
    seriously, lucia. you're amazing.

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  12. oh my, your photos just capture summer. beautifully put.

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  13. i LOVE that book, Lucia. :) it's so....nice and brown-paper-package-y. :D

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  14. That nose close-up is riveting. Summer freckles.

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  15. This is so beautiful!!! Love that nose close-up too! Freckles!

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  16. ohhmy gosh this is lovely and beautiful; reading your posts is like biting in a particularly juicy peach: tasty, sweet, and oh so yummy. have a lovely day girl. xx
    lotus from 'my words and i'

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