Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." ~ Virginia Woolf Adapting in Autumn 2020 has been a year y'all, and many of our plans have fallen by the way side. I admit part of the reason I had such a problem with summer [...]
"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh." ~ Rumi All The Fall Things I admit I was not ready to welcome autumn. Part of it was I hate the cold, and the [...]
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay." ~ Robert Browning Hudson Valley As I mentioned in my previous post, I was lucky to do ALL the farm things this fall. I was especially blessed, because I got to go apple picking TWICE! On the verge of gushing, (which [...]
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time." ~ Robert Browning All the F Words I can't do a Friday Favorites without compiling a list of all my favorite fall things to do. It would be sacrilegious! It just should [...]
"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Day to day goings on I feel like I lived ten lives last weekend. I admit I don’t [...]
"Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn." ~ Marilyn Monroe Fall Fashion Guys it finally FINALLY feels like Fall. (okay I am getting ahead of myself because it went back to the eighties this week, but beggars can not be [...]
"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson Hudson Valley Fall is in the air and no place says Fall more then the Hudson Valley. Home to Ichabod Crane, rolling farm land, cider donuts and crisp air, it may not [...]
"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson Keeping with the apple theme and also channeling a bit of childhood, my Mom, aunt, and grandmother use to make this scrumptious delicacy all the time when I was growing up. Yet [...]
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~ George Eliot Living in the Concrete Jungle doesn’t give way to many fall like opportunities unless you hit up the local farmers markets on Sundays or take a stroll [...]
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~ Albert Camus As a child I grew up in one of the prettiest mountain towns in the country. Of course it usually occurred in the fall. With leaves changing exquisite colors, and the air crisp but not yet chilly. You couldn't help but [...]