Moonlight memories

Thursday, August 5, 2010

"Moonlight Becomes You" was the title of a popular song when I was young. In fact, it was sung to me in a derisive tone after a group of us went swimming at the Ellis rock quarry. My hair was plastered against my head and I was pulling some sort of pond scum off of my shoulders. But it was a bright moonlight night and we could almost see as clearly as daytime. That was a fact that didn't help my appearance a bit. This was the time when we girls all had our hair fixed just right or we were mortified. My singer was not a special boyfriend, but just one of the gang that met on a hot August night to swim.

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