My October blue sky begins tomorrow! I'm looking forward to a stunning blue hue rivaled by nowhere else on earth. Look at my lil' guy, already got those big, round peepers of his looking for it!
The light is now strictly autumnal, which is - in my opinion - the prettiest light of all the seasons. I enjoy evening light in summer, too, when the temperature starts to dip a bit, and the light has softened and you can smell honeysuckle every time the breeze rolls over you. That's heaven.
I finally got our porch decorated! I kept it simple, two big pumpkins and my big pot of yellow mums. My husband was kind enough to scrub the porch and hose it down before I decorated. The door does not have a seasonal door covering, that's a reflection of some of the trees in our yard when I snapped the photo. It's nice to come home to the autumn pretties on the porch. I still love my navy ceiling and don't plan to repaint any time soon.
Look at this little sassy pumpkin! She had some sneezing the last couple of days, but with some medication and pampering (when is she NOT pampered), it seems to be better. She's not fond of going to the vet, so I'm truly glad the meds helped. This last batch of kittens is going to be the death of me from worry!
It's nearly Crocktober! First up this weekend on the menu is corn casserole. I'm pretty jazzed, it should be good because how on earth can you go wrong with cream corn, corn, butter, sour cream, eggs, honey, buttermilk, cheese and cornbread mix? If it turns out, I'll share pictures.
My days are packed with the ordinary right now. Funny how that works. A huge amount of busyness without anything new or different added in, just life in general. It seems like when we are busiest, that's the time that we add new projects, but this go-around, it's literally status quo. Our weather turned a bit warmer but nearly no humidity, so it's been stunning. Rain rolls in next week, but that's okay. It will help keep the leaves from drying out and falling off too soon, which means we could have some really nice color this year. No complaints here.
After Sunday, it looks like we are mid to low 70s and staying there. I would like to say that those temps are good comfort-food temperatures, but who am I kidding? Comfort food is good in any weather, and isn't it funny how each season has its own tastes and flavors? Orange or grape soda throws me back to summer in the 1970s when I was little. Any casserole but particularly potato casserole represents nearly every autumn of my life.
Autumn is the season of melancholy and reflection for me, but it's also a season of sporadic invigoration on those days that are particularly cold and crisp. You can feel weather like that on your skin. It's the season of biscuits warmed up with a lot of butter and the addition of apple or pumpkin butter. It's the season of feeling the temperature start to dip as the sun sets, quite literally feeling the quick drop degree by rapid degree. Autumn feels shorter than any season, yet it is allotted the same exact amount of time. That big holiday at the end of the year takes over far too soon for my taste. I hold autumn close until I absolutely have to turn that page on the calendar to December and the madness that comes with it.
I hope your October is filled with some very good things. The simpleness of remembering to look up for that blue sky or treating yourself to a comfort food you don't have on a regular basis can give us a boost that we didn't even know we needed. Here's hoping this last quarter of the year slows down just a little bit.
No comments:
Post a Comment