The Real Boys of Summer

Remember real joy? The happiness of winning? Or playing just because it was fun?

I smiled when I got the picture above and the note below from Tami, my sister-in-law, who has a has a cool way of observing the world in very interesting ways. Her son, Devin, is the smiling guy in the foreground of the picture:

One of the moms on Devin's baseball team takes pics all the time and she forwarded this to me. I don't know why, but I love this picture. To me it epitomizes what summer is about. The boys had just won a 3 day tournament and were running to line up for their trophies (and yes, there were one or two kids in front of Devin that aren't in the picture!). The scoreboard was starting to be cleared off (thus the first inning number), but the final score is correct.

One other thing, the reason Devin isn't wearing a belt is because the first game of the tourny (3 days earlier) he forgot it and he hit the ball really well...he was convinced that it was because he didn't wear his belt (he also had holes in his sox that he wouldn't change!!). Baseball players can be so superstitious!!

Anyway...here's to the "boys of summer!"

I think I'll go walk around barefoot in the grass today.