I love cutting letters from old magazine tear-outs and what not (here’s a recent work)– it’s one of my favorite ways to fill a sketch book. I had my super sharp/super unsafe scissors out, along with a handful of leaves from a hike in the Blue Hills… and a strong desire to, you know, not fold laundry. Procrastination births most of my creativity. Here are some leaf letters. Once I’d…
autumn
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Cape Cod in the Fall
There’s just something so beautiful about Cape Cod in the fall. It’s still just warm enough for barefoot walks on the beach + outdoor showers (hardy New Englanders unite), but the crowds and traffic have thinned, and taking left hand turns becomes an option again. …
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Today: Passing through.
I’ve always looked at spring and fall as transition times, not giving them the full respect of actual seasons. Spring gets us to summer (Thank you, Jesus). And fall gets us to winter (Happy Birthday, Jesus… and, in the case of winters such as the last one,…
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Today: An afternoon in the pumpkin patch.
Reasons why I am the least enjoyable person to be around this time of year (an abbreviated list): The only pumpkin-flavored things I like are pumpkins. I don’t want my coffee to taste like a gourd. I want it to taste like coffee. Same goes…
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Today: A taste of fall.
If I had my way, we’d skip from summer to winter, mostly so that I’d have reason to decorate for Christmas in early September. Since moving to our new place, though, I’ve had a chance to crunch through the fallen leaves with Clark each day…
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Today: I hate fall. But I like autumn.
[tweetmeme source=”elizabethev” only_single=false]I was in a hideous mood earlier this week (I’d blame lack of sleep over the weekend, but after dressing up like a flying squirrel on Saturday night, I slept until 10 the next morning.). Clark was feeling salty too, mostly because he…