Day 72 - Summer Ice Cream

It's hard to tell that Heidi is holding a soggy cone in this photo, but her blue ice cream is clearly all over her face.  I don't remember what she was looking off towards in this photo, taken in Michigan n 1988.  But I do remember moments before, she had been chasing her grandmother with her drippy cone. Grandma was wearing white and giggling frantically as she dodged the silly girl's attempts to dab her with the cone!

Best Summer Ice Cream:  When we'd hear the music of the ice cream truck and dash out with coins... ice cream at night, near any kind of fountain.... sitting on a porch with a cone.... AND! My favorite routine as a kid, stirring and stirring my ice cream in a bowl, as if I were preparing batter.  Then sampling over and over to see if it was just right. Then "Oops! It's all gone!"