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Autumn’s Last Breath — And a Peek of Winter (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 2)
The mums are still blooming, and the later-turning trees continue their attempts to embrace the palette of Fall, even while Winter tries to push in several weeks early with its monochromatic color scheme! Grateful that Mother Nature finds a way to make it pretty, even as we curse winter’s early arrival — the change…
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Running the Trails at Sunset (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 1)
Hello, friends! After neglecting my blog for much too long, I have decided to hyper-extend as a return effort and try to blog a post-a-day for the month of November! (Nothing like going from zero to 60, eh?!) The whirling shit-show of the political world has sucked me in, following the news obsessively and losing…
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Time Again for the Great Minnesota Get-Together
You either love it or hate it … the Minnesota State Fair has few “meh” responses. Coming from a Fair lover, there is a strategy to maximizing your time and experiences (and food!) at the Great Minnesota Get-Together (taking place now through Labor Day)! I have some of my top tips (“use the free ‘park…
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Supporting the Little Guys
As the crab apple trees and lilacs both came into their full glory, filling the yard with the fragrance of a delayed Spring, I took an additional day of vacation to extend a long weekend, and frantically scrambled to eliminate as much dog and cat hair as possible, while putting together an extra-special spread for…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Evanescent
This week’s photo challenge seemed to foreshadow the weekend, and spur me to return to my blog, which has been neglected of late. Krista encouraged us to share a photo of a moment in time that held meaning for us … specifically, to share an evanescent moment or memory. “Evanescent” is often used to describe…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 