The first day of fall is approaching us this weekend, and I wondered if you might humor me for a few minutes while I share a few of my favorite posts from this summer. I am never sad to see summers go, but I always look back on them with a full heart and a face covered with freckles.

Memorial Day Weekend

Little Summer Wonders

Little Moments at the Lake
Fourteen Thousand Words

SML Staycation

On Both Looking Back and Looking Forward

Some Thoughts About My Thesis

We are approaching my favorite time of year. Summer is bumping into fall and the mornings are filled with a chilly mist that hangs over trees. It's almost time for hot tea and old books and new, perfectly folded jeans. But until then, summer feels sweeter than ever as it gently slips away. That liminality (and apple orchards) are powerful, and I love it more each year.

  

This weekend was full and relaxing in one of those good for the soul, refreshing ways.

It was muggy and it rained and then it was sunny again, and it really felt like a good, slow summer weekend.

Peaches in the kitchen--they get bruised and soft so fast but taste like heaven either way.

I slept in a bit, drank my coffee slowly, and didn't leave the house but once. I caught up on blogs, got a few pages of Les Miserables read, painted my nails, washed my hair, finished editing an essay, and wrote up a little something for a few friends. Rob and I took Rocky for a walk and came home to give him a bath, which is always a struggle but always so darn cute. We finished Game of Thrones, opening up some room for us to catch up on True Blood. Life's not too bad.

How was your weekend? Here's to another week!