Summer is fading

We have come to the “Dog Days” of summer when the mornings are cool and the afternoons so hot you just want to sit on the porch with the pups and enjoy something cool to drink.

It also marks the start of school and before long it will be crisp leaves, flannel shirts and football.

These are some of the days we can cherish the most as we kiss the summer good-bye to welcome the beauty of fall.

We really have been lucky in Hot Springs County this summer. We have had a number of grass/range fires, but they have been contained fairly quickly.

We are in a stage one county burn ban and have had some red flag days so it is still important to be diligent and on high alert for signs of smoke.

We had terrific weather for our summer community events. We are hopeful that as we’re sneaking up on September, we will have a long, enjoyable fall.

Although summer is fading, we can look forward to bonfires with friends, a warm drink on a chilly day and time inside snuggling under a blanket with your loved ones or a good book.

Every season in Wyoming has its perks and every one is hard to let go of at times, but the great thing is, as one fades, the next beautiful season begins.

Still, some will be sad about the and of summer, coming of fall then followed by winter. Some find it hard to accept the end of a season.

As Robert Frost states in his poem “Reluctance,”

Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?