Goodbye To All That: Summer Pleasures That Will Be Missed

SUMMER JOY AT THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PARK

In no particular order, here's what I'll miss of summer:

--The long span of daylight

--Empty parking spaces on my street

--Easy restaurant reservations

--Heat

--"Let's deal with that after Labor Day."

--The summer prix fix 4-course dinner deal at 1789 Restaurant

--Hot dogs (at Haute Dog)  and ice cream (at Thomas Sweet) just because

--Frozen custard at The Dairy Godmother

--The revivifying embrace of an ocean breeze

--Sunsets after a thunderstorm

--Sand

--Sunburn

--The bounty of the farmers markets

--"Let's go have a swim at Chevy"

--Wearing sandals and slip dresses

--The scent of Coppertone

--Windows open, listening to the laughter at evening parties in neighbors' gardens

--Children, on city sidewalks, splashing in the water of garden hoses

--Wandering the grounds of Mount Vernon

--Sitting outside, anywhere and everywhere

--Fresh Chesapeake crabmeat

--That bracing first sip of an iced, cold glass of fresh lemonade

--Baseball (on TV and nights at Nats Park)

--Locally grown produce

--Taking a nap on a picnic blanket in a field of grass and flowers at the National Arboretum

--Steamed sweet corn with butter and salt

--The song of the Cicadas

--Fireflies

--The trashtastic summer season of  "Real Housewives Trannies of Orange County"

--Young and old splashing in the fountain of the  Georgetown Waterfront Park

--The shade of Dumbarton Oaks

--Long drives with the windows open, playing the beach Top 40

--Wash n' wear hair 

 Just think, soon enough it will look like this: