My Life In Pictures...

Is anyone else absolutely floored that it's the end of October?!?  OCTOBER?!?  Where did this year go?  It seemed to fly by for us and it doesn't look as if it's slowing down anytime soon.  Case in point is that many of these photos are from our Canada trip and some are over 2 months old.  It seems like yesterday we were sitting in the pickup truck bed in the middle of Montreal, eating Vietnamese food and watching the drunk kids at the hostel next door rage, rage, rage at 8pm...

Anyhoo, let's talk about some of the stuff up there in the collage because I know a few of you are probably wondering about spiders and mustachioed pumpkins.

From top to bottom and left to right:
/ Oh, Quebec provence I loved you so!
/ Weird flowery shrub things that I was gifted by a friend.  I don't cut flowers for the house but since these were already in my hands I went ahead and made a small arrangement with them for fall.
/ Wolf spider with a back full of tiny babies!  They were so cute and I tried not to disturb them too much.  Most people at work weren't thrilled with my photos but I'm cool with spiders and other bugs and think they're beautiful.  We live across from a park on a very wooded lot in a house that is over one hundred years old so, duh, we have critters everywhere and we live with them in the most harmonious ways we can.  I don't like the idea of 'killing it with fire' or such things.  It - spider, roach, wasp, etc - lives and serves a purpose and we share a world.  I try to be kind and not smush/kill unless there is biting about to commence.  End of story.
/ Quebec City donkey is cuuuuute.
/ Went on an adventure with my Mom and found a really cute town with a fun Halloween tradition.  More on that tomorrow!
/ Dog is my co-pilot.
/ Dreamy, spooky house in Vermont.  I made Brady do an illegal U-turn (with no one around) to get a photo of this place.
/ Contemplative Brady poses on the eastern side of Cape Breton National Park in Nova Scotia.
/ Two silly looking folk.
/ My jack-o-lantern idea begins.
/ A Jesus figurine that I found to gift to a talented artist friend.  It'll look completely different when he's done!
/ Overalls 4evah.
/ Gardenia blooms outside of our local liquor store.  Booze + flowers = Athens.
/ Pigeons, a favorite of mine, with a pop art prop in Quebec City.  There were real pigeons on these art pigeons.  Pigeon inception!

Other stuff that happened that isn't pictured:
/ Went to Cine (our local theater) to see Back To The Future on the all important day and had a blast.
/ Went to the big theater to see Crimson Peak and fell in love with the clothing and set design and the ghosts but not some of the other areas of the film.
/ Bought candy for trick-or-treaters and I'm eating it already.  Damn!  I'm such a cliche sometimes.
/ Hair is short again.  Bliss!
/ We now have 5 cats.  FIVE.  The latest were dumped/abandoned in our neighborhood and gravitated to our porch.  Now they're ours and all have appointments at the vet next week.
/ Booked an Airbnb for my birthday week in New Orleans in January.  Whoooooo!
/ Reorganized the porch and the house and finally have things like we like them.  Still on the hunt for a papasan chair to complete our '1970's earthy era exploded in here' living room.
/ Switched over spring/summer cakes at work and are trying new recipes for gingerbread, pumpkin and other spice cakes.  I'm also making so many new vegan ice creams!  It smells so good at work right now.

Whew.  Life is good.  Very good.

Hope you're having a great fall too!  Would love to know what you have planned for season...