Setting Up

This weekend, I'm setting up a garage sale.

And phew, garage sales are more work than one would imagine.

The sorting, the stacking, organizing, and pricing...

 

During all this, this little luna moth came to visit and I was charmed.

Doesn't take much to charm me, does it?

I think it was his beautiful shade of green.

Enjoying the little things in life.

happy weekend!

camp-ache

Today I thought of how fun it would be to go camping.

I haven't been camping for a long time. Well, I guess we camped at bonnaroo, so not that long...

 

but no matter the time it would be fun to get a group of friends together, maybe go on a short hike or run around at the campsite during the day, then in the evening start a fire, roast marshmallows, talk into the wee hours of the night...

 

hopefully this can happen sometime this fall.

camping in the fall.

doesn't that sound beautiful?

 

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packed up and oh so ready not to go

these are my bags all packed up to go back to college.  obviously there were many many more bags, but these were the ones conveniently riding in the backseat.  i think summer has been too good to me because i'm really not ready to go back to school.  funny some might say since i took summer classes.  but it's not the same, you know?  i would live forever barefoot, having bonfires, and spending time with my friends if i could.  summer has been too good to me.

 

but there is fall. autumn.

and that makes any homework or other college inconveniences (i miss you already kitchen and car!) not seem so bad... for fall is my favorite season. my absolute favorite.

A Night Out

Last night, Adele, Becca, and I got dressed up and went out to dinner.

Nothing to celebrate really, we just fancied a night out.

It's so enjoyable to go out for no reason at all, purely for fun...

it's just awkward to tell the waiter that.

Next time, we're saying it's one of our birthdays. ;)

 

Sleepy Hollow Trail

I started babysitting when I was in eighth grade and it's a job I still hold today.  The families and children have changed over the years.  Usually I am only needed for a short season in their lives.  Slowly some drop off, and I meet new families.  In these passing years, I have been blessed to meet some really wonderful families and spend some time as part of their children's lives.

On Saturday afternoon I spent some time with a family I started working for almost two and a half years ago.  The girl is eleven and the boy is nine.  The girl had a friend's birthday party to attend, so the boy and I went hiking not too far from where the party was.  We walked Sleepy Hollow Trail, a path not long, through dense plant life and over small creeks.  He said he had never been hiking before, and on the inside I was elated that we had come.  I believe nature has a lot to teach us, as well as a peace about it.  I relish any chance to share this.