autumnal

♪i love the open road, and all that it suggests♪
soot and stars

only one rule in the patch-no smashing pumpkins

wanderlust

I always feel like I lose a little chunk of time when I'm sick, all of a sudden it was the very last day for pumpkin picking! We braved the cold weather and whipping wind for a bit and headed just a few miles away to our favorite orchard. I love being in the middle of town near all of my thrift/vintage shops yet so close to farmland and trees, it's definitely middle of America. I can't really describe the feeling around here..normal? I was always dreaming of New York as a teenager, working for a magazine or something..but I was just too afraid to take that big of a chance, and unsure of what I really wanted.(when I was little I wanted to be a designer or marine biologist..i didn't see the ocean until I was 17 haha) Growing up I just wanted to get away..you know..anywhere but here. I even succeeded once right after high school(early graduation), packing my car full and heading south to my childhood best friend's. My parents drove the 10 hours and brought me back, much to my chagrin. I had the chance to move out on my own a year later and I was a little more prepared, and free! I still don't know what I want out of life, who really does? That's kind of the adventure. I just know I don't want to run anymore, I'm right where I want to be. I am however, a huge fan of road trips, even mini ones! I think that has to be one of the sweeter things..finding interest in the mundane and beauty in the everyday. 

picked the perfect pumpkin

a foxtail and a fleet fox!

i'm jealous of you birds

  

 I made french onion soup(again!) and my pecan and pumpkin pie..did I mention I love comfort food when I'm sick haha

Mom brought me this new french press she snagged at the thrift store for 50 cents! It's amazing. My first one..toasted southern pecan coffee has never tasted better.

I shot this through Luke's celestron astromaster telescope..so glad I bought it a few years ago, it gets a lot of use!

Hunter's moon aka Sanguine,dying grass,blood..the first full moon after the harvest moon.
I'm a lunatic.


Happy Fall!

the clash

♪I want you to notice

When I'm not around♪

creep



Ever put on something that you think matches perfectly and realize it's completely clashing?

That's this shirt. To my human eyes this weird ocher-ish color matched the leaves in this dress, it came off looking more pumpkin spice on camera..drat. They look awesome together hanging in my closet though! haha My fortune cookie said it perfectly-

To have a beautiful life you have to make some beautiful mistakes



perfect coat hook!

We discovered a new tree at one of our favorite parks, the Honey Locust!
It's near a little river and has the gnarliest looking massive spikes protruding from an otherwise normal looking tree..there were black banana looking things all over the ground under it too, what a weirdo!

Honey Locust facts( from wiki)

The name derives from the sweet taste of the legume pulp, which was used for food by Native American people, and can also be fermented to make beer.

The strongly scented cream-colored flowers appear in late spring. The fruit of the Honey locust is a flat legume (pod) that matures in early autumn.

These thorns are thought to have evolved to protect the trees from browsing Pleistocene megafauna

 Pleistocene megafauna is the set of species of large animals that lived on Earth during the Pleistocene epoch and became extinct in a Quaternary extinction event. These species appear to have died off as humans expanded, larger islands lost the vast majority of their larger and all of their largest mammals.  Four theories have been given for these extinctions: hunting by the spreading humans,^[1] climatic change, spreading disease, and an impact from an asteroid or comet,^[2] a combination of which is also possible.

I can just imagine the amazing creatures that used to roam these lands, wish I could go back in time!

Have you guys been watching American Horror Story?! This season is extra creepy/awesome..loving the 60's flashbacks.

Hope you're having a great week!

hark!

did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?

"One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self."

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” 

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” 

“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.” 

“Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.”   

- a few fave Fred Rogers quotes

Fred Mcfeely Rogers, one of my favorite humanitarians.We had all of five channels growing up and beside old movies I was watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood. It first aired in 1968 and continued into the new millennium. I loved his little daily adventures, how cool is it to learn a bit about everything? He wanted to teach children to love themselves and others . He was quirky, kind, curious, unique..

Also,his outfits were pretty fresh. PBS is still one of my favorite channels..antiques roadshows, masterpiece classics! haha He saved public television.

Happy Saturday!