Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fall

Fall never fails to inspire me: brilliant colors, crisp days and cozy evenings...

Today Patrick and I went for a hike in the Collegeville/Saint John's area, and here's a photo for you

saint johns, fall 2008

Saturday, October 4, 2008

336 days to go

I spent a little bit of time playing with a spread sheet to create a guest list for the wedding, and I think I'm more confused now than I was before!

Should we invite the in-town cousins that I'm not very close with but who invited us to their weddings last year? And of course you can't invite some and not others...

I plan on chatting with my mom this week, though, and we are going to Utah next week to visit Patrick's mom, so soon I will have lots of insight ;)

Hey, at least I know I like this idea for centerpieces:


I have access to plenty of peacock feathers :)

I also really like this photographer's style.

Ok, it's time to stop daydreaming and start getting ready for a Saturday at the library.

Happy weekend, everyone :)

Friday, October 3, 2008

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I spent last Saturday at the Northern Minnesota Draft Horse Association Fall Field Day

My mom, grandma and I took a road trip out to Belgrade and we gawked at horses and old farm equipment.

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There were teams of Percherons and Belgians pulling covered wagons and buggies as well as demonstrating old farming machinery.

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It's just mind-boggling see how difficult (and dangerous) farming was back then!

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I also saw oxen

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and Norwegian Fjords

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and we all went on a hay ride
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A perfect way to spent a Saturday :)