a dapple of my weekend

So, apparently things don't always go as planned. I didn't get Indian takeout, or beer. I stayed too late at the fabric store and missed the entire podcast. I realized I finished my last Mary Oliver collection and didn't have a new one to read. And I got babysitting-ditched (a blessing in disguise?).

On the other hand, I still managed to have a pretty satisfying weekend:

I got outside while it was sunny and close to 90 degrees and snapped some pictures of the dying summer beauty.

I heaved myself out of bed early (or, well, let's say not late) Saturday morning and watched Mary's softball game. (And got a hair-part sunburn!)

I made the most genius soft serve ever. (Seriously, go try it. Right now.)

When some Saturday afternoon crabbiness started getting to us, we marched into the bathroom and put on some bright red lipstick to perk us up.

I (of course) took too many pictures of our silly cats.

Since it was just me and my mom and my sister all weekend, I cooked a tofu stir fry and we ate a "girls' dinner" outside, before it got too chilly.

We took a long walk in the woods to breathe in that newly-autumn air.

We watched sadly as too many leaves began to fall, incredulous that so many had already hit the ground.


Also, not pictured: crocheting a few more rows of the blanket I'm working on (slowly but surely), doing silly yoga poses on a blanket on an empty football field under the harvest moon, baking flax bread and cooking lentil dhal and roasting beets (my new favorite food), going to a detox yoga/whole foods cleanse workshop Sunday afternoon, and catching up on the few bad (but oh-so-addictive) TV shows I've been missing.

I hope your weekends were great, too!