Summer's Coloring Book

Remember the fun of coloring the clowns or the puppies and kittens and all the simple artwork in those coloring books when growing up? There was nothing better than sitting down with your Crayola crayons and your favorite coloring books and spending time simply coloring. Between the unforgettable scent of the crayons and the many choices of basic artwork in those coloring books, the time spent coloring was magical. And quite creative. Very creative.

Just think. With your Crayola crayons you could color the sun pink, the grass blue, kittens green and puppies red. Stars could be purple. Bananas could be orange. Whatever your imagination chose, those familiar objects could change their familiar colors and dress up like its Halloween, disguising themselves just like we do.

Summer is a never-ending coloring book with its pages beautifully colored by Mother Nature in shades of primary and secondary colors. Some soft. Some bold. With the warmth of the sun, summer's colors seem richer. They wrap you up in contentment in wonder of all those colors. All those shades of colors. 

Gardens are a lot like a full box of crayons. Open that box and you will find shades of red tomatoes. Of yellow squash. Of orange pumpkins and carrots. Of purple eggplant. Of green beans, tomatoes, zucchini, peas. Get the shovel and dig up white potatoes covered in brown potato skins covered in shades of brown soil. 

Those garden crayons really could be the largest box of crayons available at the local dollar store. 

While Amish stands, with their quilts, jams, jellies, potholders, aprons, fresh vegetables, cookies, and pies, add to summers blend of splendid colors, some of those colors are quite delicious, if you know what I mean.

Fields offering varieties of crops and trees and wildflowers along with old fences and hedgerows and cows grazing and horses swishing their tails blend into a most splendid backdrop of favorite shades of Crayola crayons. 

It is advisable to slow down.

Take all of the beautiful shades of those magnificent colors in before those summer crayons, as well as the breathtaking shades of autumn's crayons are put back in the Crayola box, replaced by shades of winter whites and grays as the wind howls and the snow flies around the garden covered in a blanket of one certain Crayola crayon. The basic white one.