22 - Keep Cool

Man is a fool, when it's hot, he wants it cool
when it's cool, he wants it hot
always wanting what is not

~Gabe Baluyut

Sometimes keeping cool ain't pretty!  Photograph by Dan MacKillop

If anybody needs to keep cool, it would be this lady.  Photograph by Dan MacKillop

Lake Huron at Harbor Beach, Michigan.  Photograph by Dan MacKillop

After temps nearing 100, there’s nothing like a dip in the Atlantic Ocean to keep you cooled down.  Photograph by Dolly Blaydes

Cooling off a Canaveral Beach, Florida.  Photograph by Ellen Palmer

Swimming in the pool.  Photograph by Ellen Palmer

A Jet ski ride, a swim or a float on the party raft are all ways we keep cool in the summer.  Photograph by Ellen Palmer

This is my neice keeping cool on a hot summers day in my mom’s “pool”.  Photograph by Laney Griffin-Robinson

This is my son’s Sam and Tripp keeping cool in a fountain in Vilano Beach.  Photograph by Laney Griffin-Robinson

This is my nephew Zach keeping cool playing with Elmo.  He kept saying “Elmo HAPPY!”  Photograph by Laney Griffin-Robinson

Photograph by Mary Kay Clemens-Mathis

At first, I thought this was a naked woman in the background....  it's not.  Photograph by Robin Anderson

On Lake Huron, the water can be shallow for great distances.  Lots of people take their shoes off and wade.  Photograph by Robin Anderson