week 43: fall fun

#6: painted pumpkin

Crossing something else off my 12 by 2012 list!

I swear I painted the pumpkin last week.

Only just getting around to pictures and posting today.

I like that the orange of the pumpkin shows through the gold paint.

And the stem is glittery.

Happy Halloween!

a taste of home

last weekend Husband and I went back to East Lansing for the big football game... Michigan State vs University of Michigan. it turned out well for us [the Spartans won] and we had a great time, but it's always sad to leave again after a trip back home. a lot of my family and friends were back for last night's game vs Wisconsin [for that amazing ending] and I couldn't be there, so I decided to console myself this morning with editing my photos from the trip. I have a TON but these few walking around campus after the game might be my favorites.

the Beaumont Tower [where Husband proposed to me]

gorgeous fall light and the Red Cedar River
 

on the bridge between Wells Hall and the Admin Building

there is no place like Michigan in the fall...
especially on a football Saturday.

fall ramblings

it would seem I have the blogging bug again. today is one of those days where I just feel driven to write. I can feel myself slowly slipping into a funk, and I'm trying to type my way out of it. word by word. so please excuse me if this gets disjointed and irrelevant. I'm just feeling the need to get some words out.

my coffee is sitting on the desk next to my laptop, smoking like a mug of campfire. hearty and bold french roast. Starbucks. because even though I try to save the 50 cents and buy generic it just doesn't pack the same kind of punch. at least I grind and brew it on my own. I drink coffee, black, that's it. so it doesn't make sense to drive somewhere and pay someone if I'm not getting a half-soy-no-foam-extra-caramel-whatever.

I'm bundled up in sweatpants and my trusty beat up MSU hoodie [which technically belongs to Husband, though I've been wearing it the past 5 years]. I wish I could wax sentimental about the changing weather and the scent of fall in the air but I'm just chilled from the air conditioning. it's 76 and muggy out this morning here in Jersey. I could smell it in New Hampshire, but that version of fall hasn't crept down this far yet.

tomorrow is the start of school. being married to a teacher ensures that event will always be meaningful in my life. summers will always be marked with chaos, but the start of school brings order and routine. the furious typing of keys as Husband lesson plans, a quiet snore from the sleeping kitten perched on the bookshelf, the gentle rumble of the washing machine, the crock pot lid rattling as a bit of slow-roasted deliciousness escapes. the sounds of fall are here, if not the scents.