Outside Showers and Summer Feet

Memories of youth at the Jersey Shore

Photo by Natasha Sennett

“Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom.” I can hear Seals and Crofts sing their song “Summer Breeze” in the deep recessed echoes of my 1970’s summers in Cape May Point. “Summer breeze, makes me feel fine. Blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind.” The chorus lingers like the strong scent of that luscious summer jasmine and all the other life that existed on those…