I’m going to stop complaining about the sun. Any day now I’ll stop complaining. Just not today. Images of pumpkin patches and apple orchards and wooden crates of pears are flocking to the shelf in my brain where my autumn images are stored. Could it really be so wrong to want the inner and outer landscapes to match up a bit better? I don’t think so.
The paper said “breezy and cool” today. That’s an ugly lie. Maybe tomorrow.
In the meantime I’m eating lots of honey crisp apples. Plain Greek yogurt from Trader Joe’s, roasted walnuts, warm drizzled honey, all resting on top of a pile of honey crisp cubes. Fall in a bowl. Mighty tasty and refreshing.
Despite this blasted cheerful sun I’m still enjoying my vacation very very much. Today a trip to the library to stock up on reading material. I was a sobbing wreck at the end of The Road. I’m hoping one of these books will be equally gratifying. It’s nice to take a book to bed for the afternoon nap with the cat posse.
Letters in the mailbox! One from my sister and one from Suzanne in Greece!
And a phone call from another friend in Greece! That’s a good friend who will scour the Athen’s office supply stores looking for just the particular re-inking stamps I’ve requested then call to give a report on how the wild goose chase is coming along. A good friend indeed!
When I’m not scribbling away in the visual journal, peeling apples, reading, or readjusting my horse blinders I do THIS little jig to one of my current favorite Get Happy songs. (the whole CD is g o o d) When I go back to my day-job in November I think I’ll train my kiddos to be the back-up dancers.
Those are LETTERS…that you got in the MAIL?? That might be common in the circles you travel in…but my old mail slot (that drops into the kitchen) is filled with nothing but junk mail ad newspapers and postcards from the car smog place. WOW.
You’re a girl after my own heart – books, food, art, bitching about the weather…I’m glad we’re sharing brain clouds at the moment. 😀
Stunning new pages – wow and thank you. Wish I could send up a few hours of drippy, cold, overcast (make that dark) PDX October. Ooops, no I don’t; it’s demoralizing. My favorite is a sunny fall so you can see all the colors. I’ll let you know when we get that. Right now it is just wet and wetter. You are in my fond heart. xoxo
The pages in your art are very expressive…I love the colors in your palette!
Have a great rest-of-your-vacation..
Oh man, we have the SAME, vicious, lying, conspiratorial weatherpeople! When, oh When do we get fall?
Okay, Trader Joes and a hand written letter? This is enough to make me weep. I love the art on your letter and wish you luck in the Greek Rubber Stamp hunt. If you find them, consider selling a few on your blog (I’m ever the “shopkeeper”). Sending Hot, Sunny Fall love,
Lisa H.
ps wishing for cool, breezy fall Love….
Well, you could live in Phoenix…it’s been in the 90s still…And we don’t have leaves turning ANYWHERE!!! This is the season I truly go nuts about and I can’t enjoy it HERE! I’m getting up to Washington next week for ArtFiberfest…can’t wait to get my autumn fix.
I’m with ya on the sun animosity…
I told you The Road was good. I cried my head off at the end.
I don’t want to pour salt on your lack of fall weather wound, but the low was 39 overnight and the high will be 60 and I put a nice basket of gourds on my porch yesterday. I LOVE ugly little warty gourds. The wartier the better.
The combination of white on black and black on white lettering in the photo of your journal page that also contains the ships log is giving me brain spasms. I want to do that in my new journal right now!
Your readers may want to know that I am taking Mama Moss to get her drivers license renewed today at 3:15 pm (sharp!) I don’t know why they don’t make senior citizens retake the driving part of the test regularly – lord knows mama moss could use a refresher but let’s face it, just getting through the written part was bad enough. Do you know what the safe distance is for following behind another driver? How about who has the right of way when 2 cars approach an intersection at the exact same time and one of them exists in a parallel universe but doesn’t know it?
If it makes you feel any better, it’s not any more autumnal in Pennsylvania. Every day this week we’ve had scorching sun (all our grass is brown) and temps in the high 80s and 90s, for goodness’ sake. Well, today, the thermometer reads low 60s and it’s raining. So, we leapt from summer directly to winter. Sigh.
Guess misery loves company, but I do so enjoy your blog and your art/musings.
May we both enjoy fall-like weather in the very near future.
🙂
The feist reminder album is very good, one that I was listening to this past weekend. Loving all your new journal pages are they separate pages that you are going to bind up. Did you bring back some leaves for pressing? That is what I miss about here, just not much in the way of falling leaves or Autumn for that matter here in land of endless sun and heat. When you take care of the sun problem, come head over this way.
Will you be wearing the that shiny blue number while dancing the jig? Inquiring minds want to know. Second grade…the musical.