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Fall is lasting forever and ever. Each time I go outside to run errands or to walk around the block, I slow down to gaze at specific trees, at showers of leaves, at green gardens blanketed with fuchsia and gold. Tim and I took the dogs to the park today ~ dusk was afoot. It was that time of late afternoon slanted sunlight, when things glow and the woods are magical. We wandered and looked.
My yam-butternut squash-carrot-beet soup turned out pink, delicious. The beets and carrots were the last pulled from our garden. I'm dreaming of next year's plantings ~ more sunflowers (to tempt in those charming goldfinches) and zinnias for cutting, one or two in a jar at a time.
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But meanwhile I'm enjoying what's here. I keep making little drawings of my tea whenever I buy a tea out at lunch or wherever, and then sew them into my journal, which is starting to become more of a collection-book of colors and shapes than written thoughts.
I've had such a great summer and fall but I'm so looking forward to winter. To going inward, being cozy, writing, visiting cafes, dressing warmly ~ the ritual of hot tea, of warm bread, of crisp walks in cleansing air. Of snowfalls, a wood stove, morning sun, and the silhouettes of hawks in bare trees. To filling my journal, mulled cider, mums and moons and winter Polaroids!
*the journal of the lovely Susan Wooldridge
**my own journal from this week
3 comments:
Winter has well and truly settled here, I have taken my winter coat out of the attic, I have to wear a scarf AND gloves everyday to go to work, but I love it so much as it is the perfect excuse to have gingerbrad latte! (I am not joking, I must have had 10 in the last 2 weeks alone..)
sewing tea drawings into a journal sounds lovely!
after a strange warm week it is getting colder here now, i am not ready for the winter at all! give me summer any day. except for christmas, i'd like a little snow then.
barbara ~ gingerbread latte! they must be good :) I have my winter coat out too and am searching for the perfect pair of wristwarmers to go with it...I love how each new season presents fresh interests!
sara ~ we had a strange warm week too here in PA, but now, whoo! it's getting quite cold at nights. Which start at around 4pm now, with the sun setting soo early. :)
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