For the Love of October

It's certainly been a while hasn't it?

I am currently blaming the lack of blog-o-sphere action on the fact that I actually thought I was forever locked out of my account due to google owning every email service on the planet.  Let's just say things got rather complicated and I now have to log in with an address that includes % signs and words that don't make sense...(oh technology)

In case you've been in a box for the last few weeks, I am here to inform you that it is gloriously, and most officially AUTUMN.

Let's take a look, shall we?

It smelled like fall today.  That crispy, comforting smell of fallen leaves beginning their transition back into dirt.  I'm tellin' you - I love it! (although my unenthused face in this picture would beg to differ...)

What's another thing I love might you ask?  Why it's this absurdly bat-winged-flowy shirt that I plucked from a heaping clothes dumpster pile at the end of last year!

(Just look at how it immediately improves my otherwise hopeless attempts at modern dance!)

And looking stoic.  I'm telling you, if you ever need to look stoic, nothing will do it like loopy-shoulder-cut-outs.

Also, there were many lovely trees with many gnarly roots that were just begging for me to creepily smash my face of them.  I mean, it's almost Halloween right?

But enough of me...let's get back to this autumn I'm talking about!

These next two pictures were taken from opposite sides of the same bridge.  One side is the more metropolis-view, the other a much more natural one.  It's quite amazing really.

So happy continued autumn and October! 

Take all the paths that intrigue you, and don't forget to crunch around in some leaves!

Jersey knit & Tennis skirts

 Wheee.. Another 98˚ day with a heat index of over 100!

The day was only  just bearable after 9pm, hence the dusky photographs.  Luckily, it's a pretty great time of day for accidentally ghostin' out in pictures!

oooOOOooo

What dimension was this photo taken in?  In what layer of the universe?  We'll never know!

Quizzical human questions your scientific reasonings.

(and shows off her bracelets recently made with some old t-shirt scraps lying about)

Internet, meet my lucky penny necklace, penny necklace, meet the internet.

Also, I love this shirt my lovely friend painted upon before letting me snatch it from her!

But back to the bracelets!

They are the simplest things in the world, and sure they may not look as swanky as some of those crazy finger-knitted-contraptions out there, but I like 'em.  If you can braid you can make them.  If you can tie a knot, you can make them.  If you can sew literally 3 stitches with a needle and thread, you can make them.

(oh and you need some old t-shirt fabric too!)

Mine are attached only by a mere fabric loop and knot, but you could do buttons, snaps, whatever really!

If anyone makes any, let me know, I want to see your creations!

Until next time -

don't die of heat, and keep stepping where the grass is green!

Under Wide Open Skies

Q: what do you get when you pour rain on a hot, dry plain?

A: a high temp of 92 with a max humidity of 94%

(summer dresses are required.)

On my way back from ballroom lessons, the sky was absolutely fantastic! That's fantastic to the point that the neighbors saw a girl wizzing down the street on a bicycle shouting out things like

"wowahweewah!" and "now that's what I call a sky!"

Behold the sky à la 9:15pm!

My dad said it looked like two dogs kissing...

What do YOU see?

Luckily I remembered to turn the ISO waaaaaay down.  I don't really know anything about photography, but I'm glad I remembered that, because it makes such a difference! (above)

There's really nothing like a sweeping mid-western summer sky to make you want to kick off your shoes and dance!