Trying to blog from my phone isn't very easy. 

It somehow gave me a choice of pictures to use.

I chose this one even though I think I've used it before. 

I came outside bc right now it feels like a spring morning

And later it will feel like summer afternoon

Yet the leaves are falling all around me

All the local townships are having their fall fests today. 

Will they be as fun in tank top and shorts?

wonderland

 

 

Someone posted this on facebook  

 The Day Wonderland Stood Still by Bruce Wayne Photography

 

If you have a chance check it out. 

 

Leaves are changing. 

The other day I saw one tree that had changed red right in the middle of others

 that had not even started to change.

 

I thought of that tree after watching the above video.

 

 

Figs

I love figs!

They are round and plump

and full of goodness inside...

 

sorta like me :)

foam

 

I recently bought myself a French press.

I simply got tired of making too much mediocre tasting coffee

I also bought a frother with visions of making super cool latte art

 

It appears that art will have to wait

In the meantime I am enjoying the milky foam

back home

(one of my wishes would be to have a huge sculpture like this in my yard) 

 

 

I returned home from a (first ever!) girls' weekend

to find a plant, huge chocolate bar and welcome home sign

waiting for me

 

my husband said when he comes home from traveling

he doesn't get that type of reception

 

so what can I tell ya

 eh?

 



guitar

i'm sitting here with a stack of cd's I checked out of the library

the absolute best place to get music for your ipod

 

besides james taylor/carole king

 I have bread, the mamas and the papas, erykah badu and KC and the sunshine band

quite the mix eh?

 

love the album cover

i'm going to try guitar lessons for the 3rd time

hopefully this time will stick

 



45

 

guess who turned 45 today?

 

I think its a good number

I like to use my birthday as a time to make resolutions

not january 1st like everyone else

 

I have some pretty good ones lined up for this year

staircase

 

my grandparents lived in a two story home

the bedrooms are upstairs and the living areas are downstairs

to use the bathroom you had to go outside the bedroom doors on the top floor

down these steps and into the main door on the first floor

 

the steps are marble

marble!

 

I remember the sound the bedroom doors made as they opened

the feeling of my bare feet on the cold, slippery steps

the plaster wall that was chipped a little then and now a lot

and sitting on the landing

 

as a young child

as a teen

as a newlywed

as a mother

 

this past summer may very well have been the last time I will sit on those steps

even though I've visited my grandparents maybe 7x in my lifetime

those steps are one of my favorite places in the world

 

writing prompt

 

 

many years ago I was in a writing group with 3 other friends

this a scene I would have wanted to use as a writing prompt

 

this building is about 50 feet from a church

the church in which my parents married

besides that church there isn't much going on in their town anymore

 

I imagine it was a very popular place 60 years ago

isn't that a great sign?

beach

My parents own a beach house

I haven't been there at all for the past 2 summers.

 

I did, however, make it to a beach once this summer while visiting family in Italy.

It was a beautiful, sunny, clear day.

The colors just popped.

 

window

 

walking through a piazza in Italy I looked up and noticed this window

I desperately wanted to know who lived there and what they were doing at that moment

 

 

Raining and thunderstorms in the forcast today

My son has plans to meet some friends at a park today after freshman orientation

I'm trying hard to enjoy the fact that he is starting highschool this year - instead of reminding myself that 4 years will fly by quickly

 

why do I constantly do that?

Focus on the end of something instead of enjoying the beginning...

hello

 

if I had to choose which door to enter first

I really don't know which one i'd choose

 

beautiful morning right now

going to be very humid later