“By all these lovely tokens September days are here,” Helen Hunt Jackson writes in her poem, September. “With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.” Even though autumn brings cheer, I still find myself feeling a bit sad for the change of seasons. Summer seems to take too long to arrive and disappears all too quickly. To celebrate this change and revisit what is–for many people (including me)–one of the joyful experiences of summer: afternoons spent at the seashore; I’m going to … [Read more...] about The End of Summer Series: Beach Urns