OCTOBER, you trickster, you…always arriving before I’m quite ready for you, making me melancholy over the passage of summer but then wooing me with your color and crispness.  These first couple weeks of Fall have been good to us, with plenty of sun and just enough rain to save me from having to water the plants.
I’m afraid paddle board Sundays are a thing of the past, but bike rides are lovelier than ever.
And gosh, these arboretum strolls…on a sunny evening, this place is magic.
The kids harvested (inedible) berries one Sunday evening while the grown-ups cracked open a bottle of Sauv Blanc.
MY WORD, kids! Â Lay it on thick!
It’s been a few months since I’ve had a work-free, kid-free day to myself, so I called in tired one day last week and headed out to Twin Falls for a little refresh.
These gorgeous gushing falls are just 45 minutes from Seattle, and on this cloudy Tuesday, I had them nearly to myself.
The sun peeked out as I was heading back to the car and the forest positively glowed.
So I stretched out on a big smooth rock and read for awhile, savoring that rare feeling of taking my own sweet time.
Me-days are grand, but Mama-Jules days have their own charm. Â We spent past Friday at Volunteer Park, romping in the sun and taking in the view from the Observatory.
Jules was having some…digestive… issues yesterday, so we stayed close to home, but by 4 pm we were all climbing the walls, so we headed over to Kubota Gardens for our annual leaf-fest.
We were a bit early for full-on reds and golds, but hey, green is good, too.
This girl was thrilled to be free!
Oh, and how ’bout them GIANTS?! Â Sunday afternoon baseball tea parties are a thing in our house now. Â And October baseball is the very best kind of baseball, so don’t let us down on Wednesday, boys!
