Farmer's Market Season

I am so thrilled....Saturday was my first trip to the Johnson City Farmer's Market this season. I love the summer. I am convinced that it has to be my favorite. I do get excited for the next upcoming season, and I mope and complain when each season seems to drag on and I simply can't wait for the next. But, nothing gives me such refreshing elation as the start of summer. I so look forward to bare-feet on pavement, especially at night when the sun is gone, but the cement asphalt is still warm. I love the fireflies, iced everything, sun-kissed cheeks, conversations at the pool, thunderstorms, sounds of a neighbor mowing their lawn in the distance, and the sense of adventure that the summer season brings.


I can't wait to go back to the market each week with Finn! It's walking distance from our front porch, but I'm already looking forward to the day when I have a bike with a basket and a seat for Finn to ride in...and it is the best to stand and listen to a group of old-timers play bluegrass for all the shoppers. Seriously, the best.


Saturday I purchased three herbs for the herb garden I hope to start soon. Spearmint, Sage, and German Winter Thyme.

It gives me such a sense of locality and warmth to stand and talk to a local herb grower about caring for my new plants...it's even better when friendly market-goers stop and pitch their tidbits of knowledge into the conversation "Well if ya can't grow mint ya can't grow nuthin. Them's is weeds in these parts, they'll a take over everthan'!" "If ya want some of those just come on over to my place and I'll give em to ya for free to take off my hands!" Love it.

I can't wait to go back and try the homemade Amish donuts that I keep hearing everyone talk about! 
Yep summer, it's official, you're my favorite. Now to go pin some herb garden inspiration...

Allison

Fall Has Come!

With the temperature dropping drastically around Johnson City, I have definitely felt the arrival of the next wonderful season. Fall. 

Mulled wine. Apple Festivals. The smell of burning wood. Sweaters & scarves. Pumpkin bread. Candles that make your house smell like apples. Candy corn. Shorter days. Hocus Pocus (classic!).

And for some reason, this year, Fall is Ella Fitzgerald. I've been listening to her Best of the Song Books.

Watch her singing Misty 

I finally found something to put in these centerpieces, and they scream autumn!

These little buds are growing all over the city, like a weed. They're Goldenrod. I am pretty impressed with myself for guessing that that's what they were...then I googled it to be sure! They're beautiful.

And the start of fall is also so exciting because it's my Mom's Birthday! Finn gave a little shout out...Happy Birthday Mawma!

And nothing gets me more excited for the turning weather than being able to share it with a tiny little person, experiencing it all for the first time! I am loving this book and have read it to Finn a few times already...

It's about a bear who gets sad when the leaves keep falling off the trees. He tries to fix it and glue them back on, but eventually he scoops them all up and makes a bed with them in a cave where he sleeps all through the winter.

And my first craft project since becoming a momma...The start to my Halloween wreath! 

I plan on adding either some wordage that's Halloween related, or a few teensy pumpkins. 

Hopefully it'll get done before Halloween gets here, but then again, I am consumed with mommyhood. And I'm reading the Hunger Games series. Woops!