The Sweet Summer Sound Of Lawnmowers
One day soon you might be able to mow the lawn with an iPhone, but
not yet. So if you have a yard, you still have to rely on a lawnmower
to cut the grass. Correspondent Sean Hurley reflects on this pastime of
summer.It was 7:15 in the morning, a Saturday, when the lawnmowers came
back. Two of my neighbors, one near and one far, had seen the checkered
flag of summer and were off and cutting. I awoke to what I thought were
a pair of lions on the higher plateau, singing like crickets in a
constant roar. All winter long the grass lays crushed beneath the boot
of snow. When the snow stomps off, the grass stands up. And when the
grass stands up, flash green and luxurious,both brands reflected the
mood created on the Milan runway these past four days where the
top-billed brands including Prada, Gucci, Ralph Lauren Hoody,
Ferragamo, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, Britain's Burberry and Versace.
the lawnmowers come stumbling out, dazzled as bears from their cave of
sheds.
Then we push or ride them along the invented maze of our backyards,simply don your specially designed sneakers and the mbt tennis shoes
will help you firm up as you stroll around. But can wearing a pair of
shoes really tone you up? Yes, says a spokeswoman for MBT. shaping out
geometries, squares of tall trouble, triangles to harvest. The
improvised poetry, the made up math of it. Like motorized rivers, we
glide down our lanes. Rolling the left wheels over the silvered path
they made the last trip down. So convenient you can see where youve
been. The green cuttings fan out over the road like a fallen fence. The
birds whistle long and short, and flicker and fly and find their chairs
in any tree or anything high to watch and ignore us at the same time,
as they do, like everything wild.Louis Vuitton, and with Gucci
releasing the Seventies Collection of vintage-inspired Gucci high top shoes
in Australian stores this week, it's getting another shot at fashion
fame and are discovering the decade's fashion hits through TV and blogs
such as Myparentswereawesome on Tumbl.
All summer long the lawnmowers spin around our heads like homemade
bees, cutting the grass, keeping the wildness tight and runable(ph).
Nipping about the rooty napes of our small trees, grasping under the
wide dresses of our rhododendrons. The sound of the lawnmowers is the
hypnosis of summer. As we ladies and gentlemen start our engines, the
earth obliges and starts up its grass. Softly, over the old flat earth
we rove and love and try to keep well in the way we imagine best.It is
a race of sorts with a finish line of snow. But this is just something
we like to do, side by side, when it gets hot. Pretending our pleasure
is our work, and finally when the lawn is cut and the mower stopped -
standing for a moment in the quivering silence, as though weve turned
ourselves into the purest air.
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