Fall Photos

After admiring the leaves on our runs and my bike to work, we recruited my parents to take some photos of us there this weekend.  

After these photos (and tackling some IT issues for my parents) we went to a birthday gathering at the jazz festival on Cherokee Street.  I liked it more than I thought I would.

As the night wore on, I started chatting with one of the friend of a friend's there.  I started going in to what a crazy year and some change it's been and, whew, it really started to overwhelm me.  

This morning, Mike woke up overwhelmed by our world/specifically our country.  I woke up with that conversation still in my head and also felt overwhelmed.  We treated ourselves to Sump Coffee and had a chat.  It's not always we sit down and talk about what we want and steps to get there.

Fall feels like the perfect time to reset.  As we went through the day I also thought, it's okay to miss things in the past, but it wouldn't be the same to put myself back in that place now.

And on with the day.  We went to the grocery store after Sump and I said we should get some champagne for tonight.  Mike asked, "What's the occasion?"  I responded, "We're celebrating life."  

I stepped into the day cutting up our pumpkin, baking it to make puree for the week for Chipotle Pumpkin Pasta and Pumpkin Soup on the menu for the week.  And furiously trying to read a book that's due at the library on Wednesday.  

It's good to take some time to reflect, and fall seems to call for it more than other seasons for me.  And then life steps in and keeps moving.