September 1
[ Taken August 30, 2008 | Monarch Butterfly | Cox Arboretum, Dayton, OH ]
The one time that I managed to get out to the butterfly house at the Cox Arboretum was the day before it closed for the summer... which figures. I should have spent more time this summer taking it easy and relaxing and just enjoying myself. And now I am left wondering what happened to the summer (I canremember that the summer months seemed to stretch out forever when I was a kid in grade school) and what exactly I did with the time. Summer just went so fast...
It is a gorgeous labor day. Hot, humid, and the sky is so blue that it almost looks purple. I have some work that I feel like I ought to get done, but I think that I am more in the mood to just blow it all off and go outside with a book and a tall iced drink of some kind and just while away the remainder of the afternoon sipping and reading.
My big "accomplishment" for the weekend (if you don't include finally finishing the cleaning of my office that I started about two weeks ago) was to, at long-last, frame my undergraduate and graduate diplomas that have, up until this morning, lived between a couple of pieces of cardboard, in an extra-large manilla envelope, on a shelf in my office between some photography books. They are still not actually hung on any wall yet, but I figure just getting them out and framing them was a big enough step for now.
I also think that it is kind of funny that my undergraduate diploma (Cornell, 11x14 inches) is so much larger then my graduate (University of Michigan, 8.5x11 inches) diploma. I feel like it ought to be the other way around...