TheBanyanTree: here's the crazy thing...

[Julie Anna Teague]

Yesterday was October 7th, the temperature hit 93F, and we drove down 
to the Moores Creek area near our house and went for a swim in the 
lake. Sloshed right in in our tennies, because there are a lot of 
broken bottles, old fishing lures, and a good six inches of icky, 
gripping mud at the edges.  It's not a legal swimming area, but rather 
a beautiful, quiet finger off of the big lake.  It was beautiful to be 
there.  The sunset was just turning the sky orange and tinting the top 
of the water pink. The trees on the surrounding hills, normally afire 
with reds and golds and oranges at this time, are all still green--a 
very dark, way-past-summer green, but green nonetheless.  The water is 
still warm.  Not a soul around while we floated on our old motorcycle 
tire inner tube, kicking in our bathing suits and sodden tennies, 
laughing at the sheer craziness of being able to take an evening swim 
in the lake on October 7th.

Julie