Posts tagged ‘fall’
Nothing is more annoying than when people post on facebook, twitter, or their blog about how AMAZING the weather is. It’s annoying for a couple reasons.
1. Weather is boring. True fact; it’s exactly what you talk about when you don’t know what else to talk about. It’s right up there with what you ate for lunch. Snooze.
2. Sharing your weather related experiences is really just a cover for your will to tell people that you got out into the world and experienced something that everyone else didn’t. Bragger.
Now that I got that out of my system….Have you been outside lately? Oh…my….goodness is October the best month ever or what? There’s the changing leaves, the cooler temps…the sunny gorgeous days like walking through a scene from a Hallmark movie…only to be followed by the gray gloomy wind gusting days out of a Time Burton movie. Both equally worth sharing about.
Earlier this week I took a walk and I felt like I was in a snow globe of perfect-ville-mc-gloriousness with all the huge walnut trees turning a sunny yellow and blowing around like a ticker-tape parade.
The next day it was dreary. The wind died, the sun hid, the temperature took a nose dive…It was perfect for staying in and finishing a book and a painting. If that’s not the best week ever I don’t know what is.
Full fall weekend. How was yours? Here’s what I learned:
1. Raking leaves gives me hives in a major way.
2. My daughter’s adorable-ness makes the hives I got from raking with her slightly more bearable.
3. I always see something new every time I go on a walk.
4. Did you know your city has a “Walk Score?” and you can have your very own address rated. My neighborhood rates at a 45 (100 best) – not too shabby but surprisingly low for the amount of useful walking I can do around here.
5. Home made biscuits are good. G—-ooood. I ordered a copy of Home Made by Yvette van Boven and the thing weighs a ton but has wonderful recipes and other do-it-yourself ideas for home cooking. My thumbs are totally up for the amount of recipes and pretty pictures. More testing must be done!
6. You might see a bright green Statue of Liberty head there mid-collage above. It’s a student artwork that is there to remind me how much great stuff my students are capable of.
7. Okay, it’s also there because I have officially decided to make the effort to go to the 2012 National Art Educator’s Convention in NYC. Any art teachers out there gonna go? Let me know 
Just a little montage of the goings on in Lauren Alexander Land:
Sorry other art teachers, I am in fact the best art teacher “ether”.
It’s absolutely the most beautiful time of the year and I am trying to get out and walk around and enjoy it as much as possible.
My little cousin Daphne was born and she’s super sweet and schnugglie.
The vile greedy rotten squirrels devoured my patch-perfect pumpkins.
My daughter bopping along in the park after dinner singing “It’s a jolly holiday with Mary” is pretty much the most wonderful thing I can think of.
What is making your heart light in an otherwise heavy world?
Rain, leaves, and waffles. Fall start-up checklist complete. What are you looking forward to for fall?
