This month

{apple picking 2012}

{snow line orchard}

{apple cider donuts}

{baking}

{hope springs resort}

{evening by the pool}

{rattlers in late october}

:: Went apple picking with Emily and had apple cider donuts for the first time. Em and I tried to lobby for a move to Yucaipa (apples! inexpensive houses!), but we got shot down right quick.

:: Spent a whole week planning and executing a very serious cake, details coming.

:: Got away for a weekend at Hope Springs Resort celebrating a friend's birthday.

:: Made the most of every single warm evening, spending as much time sitting on the patio as possible, even though it's covered with leaves and other plant detritus.

I don't want to abandon this space and I don't intend to, but I've been juggling a lot of obligations and I'm trying to prioritize my free time as best I can. So there might be a week where I post every day and then a few weeks with nothing. It's pretty much all dependent on when I can get my photos off my camera and onto my computer and honestly, when I work on a computer all day it can be hard to motivate myself to open up my laptop at home.

This time of year always gets in my headspace. I still think on a school year cycle, and the fall feels like a beginning, a season of change. So I'm thinking and dreaming and we're talking a lot, making decisions, sipping tequila or bourbon and cooking things that aren't much work and trying to figure out where we might be this year, next year, ten years from now. Our year of no decisions is pretty much over and while I'm not sure we're going to make any changes anytime soon, we're ready to start contemplating them. It's good, this marriage thing.