Ah September. First of the BER Months, AKA the best months of all the months. Autumn, the mistress I shall always worship, chase, and adore.
This a new one, the first of Lady G and I being not empty-nesters but birdhouse dwellers in a quieter way. This the first round of BER months without cross-country meets or banquets, random orchestra performances, or senior nights or waking up every morning and making sure everyone gets to school on time. Strange, though we’re adjusting, strange, though we’re still doing our very best.
Onto the month that was, told through photographs I took, simple little snapshots of our simple little lives.
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Walks then, it will come as no surprise, we are still walking and walking and finding our feet beneath us. We are carried over familiar paths every night, but still find such different skies. Some explode with color, others some perfect ombre fade from pitch to the last orange stains of sunset. All awe us.
We then headed to Seattle to photograph a wedding, one of two we were scheduled to shoot with Hawaii the second destination that was supposed to immediately follow it. Turns out Mother Nature and her mischievous little hurricane children had something to say about that. The wedding was beautiful, held at one of the rad McMenimans Hotels that are in crazy old buildings, and the couple was fantastic and intentional and lovely. We ended up in a mall to avoid rush hour traffic upon landing, found some INSANELY comfy pants for Sarah, a rainbow, and a mirror in which I could take another in a long line of selfies. This one, I put the emphasis right where it belonged.
With our few hours in Seattle we had not working, we decided to check out the Seattle Zoo because 1) I love animals more than people, b) we were wayyyy up North of the city for the wedding and 3) It was a beautiful day to wander outside. We saw wolves, bears, hyenas, zebras, giraffes, tapirs, and a ton of birds, and then wandered out and checked out the Fremont area for thrift stores and just random people watching. It was hot as banana pudding (not a phrase) so we didn’t stay long. For some reason we were both so tired this trip, and I blame the emotional rollercoaster of the two weeks before it dropping Addie off at school.
Back home we walked more and welcomed the little signs of Autumn springing up everywhere. The leaves that change, the pumpkins that find their way onto front porches, the light fading out earlier and earlier each night.
My favorite season. Always.
Ended the first bit of September by celebrating our dearest friend Beavs on the occasion of his birthday. Sarah, as she always does, did the kindest things and made him this insane, gorgeous, peanut-butter and chocolate sourdough cake from scratch, his favorite each year, and we got to have dinner and a billion laughs with him. How lucky we are to have him in our lives, how lucky to love him like we do.
Celebrate the people you’re so blessed to love, my friends, tell them, show them, remind them their value to you.
Do it out of the blue, too, not just on the birthdays or obvious situations. Right now, send 5 texts or messages to 5 people you love, and just tell them you do. Tell them why.
Watch how it changes them.
I love you all.
Be good.
