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From our weekend walk around Laurelhurst.
I don't know if it comes from being taught at home growing up, having been an English/Art History major where books, even novels, are a student's primary source of learning/education/homework/etc, or simply from having this be my first year after about 18 out of my 25 years of life where Fall was not synonomus with "Back to school", but I find myself unable to keep myself from rabid reading these days.
In the last couple of weeks I've read ravenously. Some of the speed that has gone in to reading these books has come, in part, from the fact that they are not all exactly sitting in the stacks at the library waiting for me to request them to be drug up from the depths (as is usually the case). We've had some things on hold for weeks that finally came - and then I was stuck in a long, non-library book I wanted to finish, so the race was on: finish the non-library book fast enough to be able to read the others, and make sure to read the last ones really fast since Josh had to read them all first, too. Crazy.
So, the last few books were read as follows:
Inkspell, C. Funke
A Monstrous Regiment of Women, L. R. King
The Case of the Late Pig, M. Allingham
A Wind in the Willows, Grahame
Birthing the Elephant, Abarbanel and Freeman
The Unlikely Disciple, K. Roose
[I suppose I should mention that usually I can see not only these buildings in their entirety, but also the river and downtown.]
Sometimes at work one of the supervisors walks around with a cart of seasonally appropriate healthy snacks. I took my banana and nutragrain bar and hot cocoa to my desk, drank the cocoa, and bagged the snacks.
Turns out its a good thing I did as the single breakfast food in our house this morning was morning star patties. I love them, but usually in conjunction with at least some other food. No eggs, no bread products, no cereal, no yogurt.
It appears Josh and I have forgotten to grocery shop recently I guess. Maybe we should get on that.
Fall is my favorite time of year. I LOVE it, but have sadly not had the chance to really get out and enjoy it. I snagged a couple pumpkins from WinCo (real ones and candy ones), picked up a handful of chestnuts from across the street, and had to call it good. Hopefully I'll have a few new fall scented candles soon, and I grabbed a jug of cider from the store that I haven't been able to cook yet. (I did drink some Tuesday night when we hung out with Evan and Karen, though, which was fabulous!)
Fortuitously, the other day when I got off work and discovered Josh was going to be probably about an hour away from being able to pick me up, I took the opportunity to be outside and decided to walk to Trader Joe's. We were going shopping at some point anyway, so I figured I'd just meet him there.
About a thousand beautiful leaves and trees, a few streets I've never walked on, and 40 minutes later, I made it. Really could have used a bathroom somewhere along the way, though.
I wanted to share a few of the trees, but unfortunately, these pictures are pretty terrible. The leaves are incredible- the smell, the crunch, the color. These pictures don't even show that the sky was blue. Oh well, what can you do.
And, ps. I have become rather obsessed with this yogurt.
