🎃🖤🧡 Happy Halloween! 🧡🖤🎃
I hope it’s electrifying! ⚡️
{“The Lovers” by Dalmatian Nation | Pinned HERE}
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Hello, October! We’re ready for more crunchy leaves underfoot and these cooler days to remain. The nights are drawing in sooner and there is a definite change to the colour of the light and shift in the shadows. Evenings have a distinctly different kind of glow with the sunset now.
We’re ready for all things apple. We’ve already been grating apples into yogurt in the mornings and eating slices with cheese and crackers as the perfect afternoon snack. Soon our annual weekend apple butter making session will occur, so we can relish in those jars of reddish chocolate gold for the months ahead when your season has long past, but we can still taste it, savoured over oatmeal on a cold winter morning.
We’re ready for the Fall break you bring at the end of this month and the chance to slow down for just a bit. As well as all the Halloween movie watching, popcorn eating, long stroll taking, museum visiting plans we have.
We’re ready for pumpkins, shaded in all the glorious bejewelled tones of fall. We’re ready for the first hot apple ciders of the season while gobbling up fresh gingersnap cookies alongside and listening to a nice fall jazz album.
We’re ready for all that you hold. There is a magic to one season slipping into the next and we’re not going to miss a moment of it.
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Hello, September, are you listening? We’re sad to see our summer fun come to a close as it was a luxurious gift to be surrounded by those we love so dearly. But as Shelby says in “Steel Magnolias”, “There are still good times to be had!”
We’re looking forward to getting back into the rhythm of a new beat as school begins again. This year that’s going to be a different pace entirely for us, we’re heading down a path unknown. We’re ready for new chapters to unfurl for us on this adventure. And like the anticipation on Christmas Eve, we excitedly wait to see what our next story holds.
We’re ready for our table to still be graced with the late summer bounty as I still haven’t had my fill of heirloom tomatoes. I shall treasure those until they disappear till next year.
We’re ready for the leaves to start to turn and become crunchy near the end of the month. We’re ready for quiet weekends after full weeks. We’re ready for the subtle shift in light as you carry in the first touches of fall. Even though you normally grace us with a beautiful Indian summer. That sweet warmth to remind us of all the glad summer times that have been.
Hello, September we’re ready for all that you hold.
{Socialite Patricia Buckley wearing green pajamas, sunglasses and a straw hat on the phone with her dogs in her house in Stamford, USA | Photograph by Ernst Beadle for Vogue | 1976 | Pinned HERE}
Hello, August. We’re ready to stretch out under ceiling fans while we read our books. We’re ready to watch old episodes of “Bewitched” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” while we eat PB&J sandwiches on fresh bread with salty potato chips for summertime lunches.
We’re ready to eat our weight in popcorn watching summer classics projected onto our big screen. We’re ready to spend all day at the beach and come home to hot dogs and fresh steamed ears of corn dripping with butter.
We’re ready for early morning walks and hot coffee on the beach. We’re ready for homemade strawberry shortcakes for lunch when the strawberries are still warm from the sun and they sit nestled on a pillow of whipped cream.
We’re ready for the lazy, hazy, days of summer to blend into one another, where nothing and everything happens.
Welcome, August! We’re ready for all the summer magic that you hold.
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🧨 Happy 4th of July! 🧨
{Barbara Anderson of “Ironside” poses for a Fourth of July Pin-up | 1967 | Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}
Hello, July! You’ve marched in hand in hand with the ongoing heat wave. Which we’re taking in our stride with lots of ice water and ice cream sandwiches on standby. We’re ready for the blessed event that you herald in near the end of the month, when you’ll utter those four magic words: SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!
We’re ready for banana splits for dinner on hot summer nights. We’re ready to stay up late watching old movies with our projector. We’re ready for early morning walks when the air is still and the world is still asleep.
We’re ready for our annual Fourth of July celebrations; our table is already decked out in red, white and blue for the occasion.
We’re ready to celebrate “Christmas in July” with a gaggle of loved ones. We’re ready to keep beach music grooving long into the night while we dance and talk.
We’re ready for those heady days of summer that you bring where the hot air is filled with the smell of honeysuckles and we revert somehow to childhood, where the possibilities of FUN are endless and the days seamlessly blend into one another.
Welcome, July! We’re ready for all the magic that you hold for us!
{Audrey Hepburn at “La Paisible“ in Tolochenaz, Switzerland | Photographed by Andrew Wald | 1967 | Pinned HERE}
Hello, June. We’re ready for all the adventures you shall bring us this month, especially the one where we run away to the circus for the day.
We’re ready for the days to continue to get warmer, the nights are already deliciously longer. We’re ready for the strawberries to begin to come into their full ruby red glory and we eat our weight in shortcakes with strawberries swimming in their vermillion juices and pillows of fresh vanilla whipped cream on top.
We’re ready for more heirloom tomato sandwiches, May gave us a few bites of that glorious taste, but there is more to come. We’re ready for long walks that end up at the ice cream parlour.
We’re ready to keep dancing in the kitchen to a favourite “yacht rock” playlist, while we make dinner. We’re ready to watch some of our favourite summer movies with a huge bowl of popcorn between, sitting in the dark with the hum of the projector behind us.
We’re ready for all that you bring. Welcome, June, we await you with arms spread wide.
{1950s Kodachrome Bathing Beauty | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}
Hello, May! We’re excited you’re here. You’ll start and end your month for us with Bank Holidays and the realisation that that was occurring this weekend, made me do a happy dance. Three whole days together this weekend is just the cherry on top of the cake.
We’re ready for the days to get warmer as they have slowly been doing in these last weeks of April. We’re ready for evening strolls after dinner before twilight sets in. We’re ready for more walks through the fields as we watch the baby lambs growing by leaps and bounds and the bluebells undulating in the breeze and dappled sunshine.
We’re ready for the heirloom tomatoes to start coming into the green grocers. We’ve already had a mini taste of what’s to come as one of our favourite grocers had some in and now I can’t wait for the first BLT of the season and slices of thick tomatoes on toasted bread with salt, oregano and EVOO for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
You bring with you a month of love for us as these two honeymooners shall be celebrating their anniversary before the month comes to a close. What a gift to be able to continue our journey through this lifetime together.
We’re ready for lazy sunshine filled Saturday mornings working on crosswords over coffee or playing another round of UNO late into the night. Hello, May! We’re ready for all that you bring. We welcome you with arms wide.
{Natalie Wood in a publicity still for “The Great Race” | By Giovanni Coruzzi | 1965 | Directed by Blake Edwards | Costumes by Edith Head | Pinned HERE}
🐥🌷🐥 HAPPY EASTER!!! 🐥🌷🐥
I hope you find all the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hidden and your baskets are filled to the brim with chocolate shaped bunnies and marshmallow chicks, jelly beans and all kinds of assorted goodies.
{Showgirl | Barnum & Bailey Circus | 1946 | Taken by: Sverre “Bex” Braathen on Kodachrome film using a Eastman Kodak Ektra F 1.9 camera | Taschen “The Circus: 1870s – 1950s” | Pinned HERE }
Happy Easter Eve! 🐣
Hurry up and get those eggs dyed to be hidden and baskets out to await sweet surprises 🥕 because as Clairee Belcher says, “It’s almost time for the Easta’ Bunny. Run on down!”.
{German actress Romy Schneider with some eggs for Easter, Germany 1950s. | Photographer: Arthur Grimm | Taken April 1, 1958 | United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo | Pinned HERE}