Awaiting Summer

Squam Lake, NH- May, 2004

It was the weekend of my daughter's graduation from prep school. It was Memorial Day, you know- the "official" start of summer. Call it what you want, it was COLD!! The graduation held outdoors was long, very long, and we were woefully underdressed. We brought our dogs, left them in the van where they snacked on the post graduation fruit salad (who knew dogs liked fruit?) and later developed kennel cough, which would have been understandable had they been in.. oh I don't know.. a kennel? Someway, somehow, without anybody saying a word it seemed to be a given that I was blamed for the entire folderol.

The next morning I awoke early to escape the contemptous looks of the dogs and the rest of the family. I drove in search of the Sunday Times and a hot cup of tea. I wasn't five minutes from our lodgings and this shot literally landed in my lap. The adirondack chairs seemed confused. Wasn't it summer after all? Did someone get the date wrong?

This shot was taken using a Minolta Vectis S-1 camera ASA 400 APS film

Never digital- always film