Summer Skin

Summer is the season of change for this little seaside town; tourists in, military families out. We retreat from the chaos of congested grocery stores and crazed traffic to our normally calm neighborhood, only to find it mad with moving trucks and awash in a sea of for sale signs. Both tourists and military families move like waves. The tourists have a shorter wave cycle cresting near weekend with a lovely trough early in the week. Tuesday morning traffic is treasured here, while Saturday traffic is something to be avoided altogether. After a month-long parade of trucks and tractor trailers, the military wave has crested. Families are now trekking across the...