another summer gone

I never jumped all the way into the ocean this year, nevermind not a single rushing ride on a boogie board. The fact is I gave my boogie board away when I left San Diego. Comings and goings.

This photo taken at Avila Beach Saturday, October 18. After walking the five miles of the Bob Jones Trail, I walked out on the pier and then down onto the beach, took off my socks and shoes, and strolled through the water, south and back north. It was cold.

Avila Beach has a magic I’m lucky to be some off most weeks, too detailed to share here. I do splash water up my arms and over my face, and hours later when I lick an arm I’m right back at the ocean.

I wish there was enough magic to do what Joni Mitchell wishes for in her song ‘Urge for Going’ – “I’d like to call back summer time and have her stay for just another month or so.”

But she’s got the urge for going, summer does, and I have to let her go. There are things where even magic isn’t enough.