Welcome Fall!

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler

 crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” 
~Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

"There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky, 

which through the summer is not heard or seen,

 as if it could not be, as if it had not been!" 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than 

all the other seasons.”

~Jim Bishop

“The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the 

storms their energy, while cares will drop

 away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” 

~ John Muir

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal

 sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent 

almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” 

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy

 about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp 

of leather and young bodies on the practice field near

 her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas,

 parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. 

There was even something to look forward to when school

 started ― renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks 

of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. 

Fall was hot supper time with everything to eat one missed

 in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it.”

~Harper Lee

Breath in that cooler Fall air. It will cure what ails you! 

Revel in the colors of the season.

 Bite into a  juicy, crunchy Honey Crisp apple.

Getting out cozy blankets. There’s nothing like cuddling

 up in a warm throw blanket to watch a movie. 

Go to an apple orchard or pumpkin patch. Pick a Halloween

 costume. Jump into a pile of leaves. Go on a hayride.

 Build a bonfire. Carve jack-o-lanterns. Wood smoke in the air.

Another special part of autumn is that the colder, darker evenings 

bring the perfect excuse to indulge in homemade, heart & tummy warming

comfort food. Now is the perfect time for slow cooked stews,

 roast dinners, big pots of chili simmering on the stove.

Enjoy each day of this magical season.

Warmly,

Susie Q

Welcome September

By all of these lovely tokens September days are here, 

With Summer's best of weather And Autumn's best of cheer.

  ~Helen Hunt Jackson

Welcome September. I have missed you.

The leaves are already beginning to change 

thanks to some unseasonable cool and rainy 

weather. The sunflowers are blooming and 

Fall is most certainly on it's way.

The morrow was a bright September morn;
The earth was beautiful as if newborn;
There was nameless splendor everywhere,
That wild exhilaration in the air,
Which makes the passers in the city street
Congratulate each other as they meet.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Wishing you a safe, healthy and very happy 

September!

Warmly,

Susie Q

A Girlfriend's Getaway

3 of my oldest and dearest friends and I recently returned from

 a little girlfriend's getaway! We ventured North to Frankenmuth, Michigan,

Michigan's Little Bavaria.

What a beautiful and friendly town.

Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, the world's biggest Christmas store!

There are gorgeous, well tended flowers every where in town. We enjoyed 

fun little shops, a river boat tour, horse

 drawn carriage rides and delicious restaurants.

 

Zehender's of Frankenmuth is a tradition with all who visit the area.

Their family style, all you can eat chicken dinners 

are oh so filling & delicious!

The Bavarian Inn was such fun for lunch. German bands and dancing and this

yummy, and geographically correct, pot pie too!

Zehnder's Holz Brucke (German for wooden bridge) 

looks as though it could have been plucked 

up from the Black Forest or a river valley in 

Switzerland and planted astride the Cass River in

 the middle of town. Though completed in 1979,

 the architects were faithful to traditional covered 

bridge timber framing techniques. 

 

Wilkommen. Of course in German it means

welcome...and we felt just that in Frankenmuth. Welcome!

Warmly,

Susie Q