Photo a day - August

Published on 8th of September 2023

Calendar shows September, but summer is still in full swing here, and I am putting together photos I took in August. Since we moved, autumn makes me very confused. September (and October too) still mostly feel like summer here in Sicily, everyone is a bit tired of the beach already, but it's still too hot for doing other things, so beach it is, again. My brain and body crave sweaters and soups, tea and to take out knitting, but it's again still too hot, so we stick to shorts and flip flops.

Back to August. We seemed to be always moving, all of us or just the kids, getting home for a few days to do laundry and pack again. We went camping and spent more time at the sea house, watched beautiful sunsets and even did a night swim with Maya and Mara, the rest was not brave enough to join us, Mara got a new favourite activity - watering rocks on the beach and sometimes her siblings too. So don't be surprised that there are so many photos of her with the watering can, it is a very big favourite. Our terrace garden needed some work as well, not all plants have survived the horrible heat in July, then a few did not survive too generous watering we gave them after. Oh well. Our basil is growing beautifully, at least there's that, it became so big that kids used it as hiding spot when they were playing outside. Time to trim it a bit and to make some pesto!