The Smell of Summer

I love this picture and Patrick and I have been loving summer.  Yes, I'm getting ready to start school and I'm looking forward to the routine but we have had a good, although hot, break from school.

Tennis is summer to me.....growing up in an avid tennis family with a father who loved the sport, meant many hours on the court.  The smell of the leather grip, the balls, the sweat, etc. Tennis is the smell of summer.

This is just about the best smell in the world to me.  I know, I know, it's a #8 but yes, they do still make it and I still buy it.  It's classic smell just takes me back to the 70's, my daddy and the beach.

 Of course, chlorine is the smell of summer in suburbia.  The chlorine I'm sure is not that healthy for us all but it's a smell that is so distinct to summertime.

Fresh cut grass in the back yard and playing with animals. Is this not the cutest picture in the world?  Patrick was crying to get in the cage with the bunny.  Christian went in also to make sure neither the bunny or baby got hurt : )

Nothing smells like a summer rain and what's better than playing in the summer rain and then enjoying a rainbow after?

Watermelon!  Need I say more.....you can only get good watermelon in the summer and oh, my mouth is watering for some now.  Love that smell!

The saddest smell occurs now in August in my house.......packing up for college.  This is Anna's load, but that will be the next post.......sniff, sniff.