I always felt dirty after being near yahoos—they always tried to grab me—so that day I'd stripped off and jumped in the ice water—to cool down and wash their smell off my skin.
They were the mummied heathbells of the past summer, originally tender and purple, now washed colourless by Michaelmas rains, and dried to dead skins by October suns.
And though the sand and salt has been washed from my body and someone someday will break my world record, I know they will, the memories I have from this paddle will stay with me forever.
The wafer next goes to the developer to wash away the sections that were hit by the light from the lithography tool and then through a hard bake to harden the remaining photoresist.
The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, " Little children, love one another" .