Yay, fall! The weather turns cooler, and it’s as though my spirits are lifted and carried with the tumbling leaves. I noticed the dogwood tree in our yard is starting to turn red; it’s always the first to go, the first to remind me that fall is here.
I have lots of things I need to be doing right now – a new Web site client, art submissions for several upcoming shows, articles for several upcoming deadlines. Spooky, the new kitten, is crying from her playpen – the over-sized garden tub in the bedroom. Adam is in class, and won’t be home until around three. Pork tenderloin is unthawing for dinner. Good jazz is floating from the stereo.
There are so many good events coming up – the Unearth festival thingy at Saluda Shoals Park, The Return (a Beatles’ tribute band) playing at Art in the Garden in Lexington, Shakefest (a Shakespearian festival) in Winnsboro and, of course, my favorite holiday of them all… Halloween. AND on top of all that, several friends are in town in the coming weeks, and I get to see them, too.
My parents leave this weekend for a week-long camping trip to Cades Cove, Tennessee. I’m happy they get to get away, but I’m jealous, too. What I wouldn’t give for a week long camping trip in the mountains right now… I also get the pleasure of babysitting Shorty, my mother’s newest dog. Dad decided he was NOT going to take five dogs camping. I would point out that he has bigger problems, but he knows.
Life is good.
