kissing stones

May 20, 2006 | Filed Under ordinary 

weeks of gray and soggy rain and we’ve sun and blue again!

on a windy day we went to lakeland park and were nearly blown away. the sand and sun were making us squint and i, for one, had running eyes.

we ran to the cars and drove away to another park, the tulips park, where there was a giant sandpile of new sand waiting to be raked across the old sand, under the slides, swings, mysteriously tall monkey bars. we stayed for a long time, ernie chasing the boys up and over, jude climbing up the slippery slide by himself. it was breezy and sunny and i wanted to nap in the grass under the trees, inside the tunnel slide, along the skinny of a park bench.

as we drove away from the windyness of lakeland we came across a full family of geese. father goose watched the cars and stood near to the road while mother goose herded her wandering fluffiness into the tall breezing grass.

later we slurped popsicles on the stoop of the patio with the old refrigerator behind us. the grass was tall and henry found something dead and creepy rotting away in it. ernie took a stick and flung it into the bushes. henry was impressed.

it is common knowledge that ernie can find a four leafed clover in a clover grass if ever he chooses to look. i was looking at the clover thinking, “ernie should look for one,” and not a minute later, as though he read my mind, he looked into the green and plucked one for me within seconds. what a lucky girl am i.

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