Since I can’t travel at the moment I have been enjoying the details around the neighborhood! Bear is also enjoying all the extra walks. Stay safe, we will all get through this together – even if we are apart. INSTAGRAM│FACEBOOK│TWITTER│YOUTUBE
Category: Weekend Wanderings
We have a rose bush at our house that only blooms briefly each spring. This year I managed to capture the beauty with my camera. Hope you are have a bright spring despite the situation. If you love flowers and wish to see more, visit my Hello to Spring post for some trees in bloom.
Before Christmas I talked about a new pencil store that opened near us recently: Graphite + Paper. And with the start of 2020 they began a quarterly pencil box and we have gotten a chance to enjoy it. This box is about more than just pencils though, it is meant to encourage you to write
Grapevine was supposed to have a Jurassic Garden event at the botanic gardens – due to the pandemic it was rightly cancelled but we did get some pictures with the dinos before everything was closed. They were still setting up for the event at the time so some of these dinosaurs were only partly put
This week is marks my fourth week working from home. It seems odd that it has been that long. I have lost count of my days sheltering in place. The days seem to be flying by and yet also somehow going at a snails pace. A month ago and to this day I still get
The weekend before the shelter-in-place order came in Keltin and I practiced some social distancing at the local botanic garden for a little photo shoot. Despite thinking I was going to freeze these were so much fun to take and Keltin got to show off his photography skills! I loved getting to feel like a
We aren’t actually under quarantine but we are under a shelter-in-place order. Wednesday was my birthday and it was an odd one, not only because we couldn’t go anywhere but because everyone asked what I was going to be doing since I couldn’t go out. In preparation for being stuck at home I bought a
This being stuck in doors with little idea of the end is rough on all of us. I love to travel and my daily walks are not a substitute for a good long hike. They do help me not go too stir crazy though. Thankfully the internet is a wonderful thing and it gives us
Near the end of the fall of 2019 I did a Goodbye to Fall Colors post and I really enjoyed stopping for a moment to really take the time to look at the beauty and the colors around me. In the last few weeks I have begun to notice the amount of new blooms on
Last weekend Keltin and I went to the Meyerson to see the Dallas Symphony perform. This is the first one we have been to in a couple of months and we were in love with the music. The first piece was Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra Op. 81 in four movements. Something that