the sweet smells of summer

It is really starting to feel like summer here.
Highs in the 30s, swimming in the pool, and the smell of Coppertone on my babies,


"A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.” Joan Didion, American jounalist and novelist.