Autumn blessings...

As nights get longer and darker, we light candles to create a warm and cozy feeling. I love get up in the morning, make coffee and light candles ~ and then sit and contemplate the day, write in my journal, or just daydream for a while before the day really begins. I feel good in moth body and soul when I can start my day at my own pace, which is slowly. There are so many things to be grateful for in life, and this is one of those things.

 

Isn't it strange how we often miss the little things when we count our blessings? We seem to take so many things for granted, and never think to be grateful for what we have. I try to find time to list things I'm grateful for, every day, and very often it is the small, simple things that make it on the list. My health, my home, my children (even though they are now grownups), that we have food to eat every day, the quiet moment early in the morning before the world outside wakes up, to sit in solitude and contemplate my day while sipping my morning coffee, to write in my journal daily... You see, this is really not any grand things, but they make it on my list of things I'm grateful for. To be grateful for the little things that we have can make a big difference in creating big things in our life. It is like little children and Santa Claus ~ you have to believe to see him. Believing is seeing, when we want to manifest our dreams too. Believe, be grateful...and then be able to recieve.

 

 

 

And as I probably won't be able to write until next month....

 

 

 

I wish you all a wonderful day...and weekend.

 

 

Autumn season

So have autumn finally found its way to us to stay it seems. At least for this year. Colder weather is coming they said in the weather forecast this morning, strong winds and rain are on its way to visit us. But as September is on its last week, it is only natural that the temperature drops, in fact it is the way it should be this time of the year.

 

The weekend was slow, and peaceful, and relaxing...just as it should be in a village far from the big towns and cities. Mostly I like this peaceful and quiet life, but now and then I long for a little bit more of activity and life. I'm not the bar kind of lady, more of a café kind, and there are only one café and it closes early, so... But for now it is good enough. There are other things that make it a nice hideaway right now, like it is walking distance everywhere you need to go. 

 

It seems like I do a lot of complaining today, and I guess we all have days like that, don't we? Maybe the weekend was a little too quiet after all... But for now that is okay. It gives us a chance to gather energy to make Changes...

Sudden change in weather...

 

 

Today autumn really hit us with a temperature drop that made the walk a bit more chilly than it's been the past week, despite wool sweather and heavier shoes. But the crisp air feels clear and refreshing, and it is the middle of September, after all, so one shouldn't complain I suppose. And I do love to live with the change of seasons, not fight it. So I'll be spending the weekend bringing out the warmer clothes and put away the summer clothes ~ for this time.  And I'm looking forward to it, believe it or not. This over night weather change calls for a cozy weekend indoors. So changing seasons in my closet, lots of hot tea, a stack of magazines, and maybe a movie or two....looks like a plan to me.

 

Take care everybody and have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

Autumn quote...

And the birch trees have all started to turn yellow over night... The clouds fly low today, not even making it over the hilltops that surround our village, and there's a kind of wet chill in the air that only autumn brings. A day for hot tea and a good book, and for watching the leaves dance in the wind outside my window... Today I feel like being lazy, as so often during this season when nature prepare to go to sleep. Well, at least there's tea....and a book...and a moment to relax and drift away to another world found in the pages of a good book.   lol

The meaning of Autumn for me...

This is my kind of lazy weekend morning. I'd love to have breakfast in bed, read for a while, maybe write a long letter to a friend I haven't been in contact with for some time...but unfortunately reality doesn't look quite like that. But I'm still hopeful that it may happen, one morning, in a close future. As the hopeful romantic that I am I do prefer the quiet, cozy autumn mornings, and nights, spent indoors in the company of good books, old favorite movies ~ and a pot of tea (or coffee if morning). Why deny ones true self and her wishes and needs?

I found this picture online, and I think it is a pretty accurate checklist for autumn. At least the list of my kind of autumn. As we approach mid September, it feels a little bit strange to have summer weather outside still. Even though the evenings and mornings are crisp and chilly, I do long for a tiny bit of autumn in the air during the day too. Or maybe it's just that I, as nature do, are feeling autumns place in the natural rhytm in nature and life ~ a time to prepare for the winter rest? 

I say bye-bye with this picture by my favorite artist, Thomas Kinkade. This weather feels far away right now when its over 20C outside, but I will get here...and part of it long for the excuse to curl up with a great book, or a stack of magazines, and a large cup of cocoa...  

Now have a wonderful magical autumn day everybody, and we'll meet again soon.

The meaning of Autumn for me...

This is my kind of lazy weekend morning. I'd love to have breakfast in bed, read for a while, maybe write a long letter to a friend I haven't been in contact with for some time...but unfortunately reality doesn't look quite like that. But I'm still hopeful that it may happen, one morning, in a close future. As the hopeful romantic that I am I do prefer the quiet, cozy autumn mornings, and nights, spent indoors in the company of good books, old favorite movies ~ and a pot of tea (or coffee if morning). Why deny ones true self and her wishes and needs?

I found this picture online, and I think it is a pretty accurate checklist for autumn. At least the list of my kind of autumn. As we approach mid September, it feels a little bit strange to have summer weather outside still. Even though the evenings and mornings are crisp and chilly, I do long for a tiny bit of autumn in the air during the day too. Or maybe it's just that I, as nature do, are feeling autumns place in the natural rhytm in nature and life ~ a time to prepare for the winter rest? 

I say bye-bye with this picture by my favorite artist, Thomas Kinkade. This weather feels far away right now when its over 20C outside, but I will get here...and part of it long for the excuse to curl up with a great book, or a stack of magazines, and a large cup of cocoa...  

Now have a wonderful magical autumn day everybody, and we'll meet again soon.

Thomas Kinkade autumn...

I must admit to being a great admirer of Thomas Kinkades work. It speaks to the old-fashioned romantic in me I guess. There is something very comforting about his paintings of these old villages that speak to my soul as well as to my heart. I'd very much like to find a place like this and live a peaceful life there for the rest of my life. Don't we all wish for a peaceful, slower pace of life..?  Really..? Well, I do!

This post is a bit short, but I hope you all have a blessed and peaceful autumn day!

Septemer

The first day of September, and the sun is shining and it's warm as a summer day...and I feel grateful for these sunny days after a rather wet and chilly summer. And yet I long for the dark nights when candles light up the room with their soft warm light and the rain give me an excuse to cuddle up with a good book, or a stack of magazines, and a huge cup of hot tea. I wish I had a fire place, but I don't ~ yet ~ so I daydream of that home looking into the flickering flames of the candles... 

What is autumn really? To me it's the time when nature prepare itself and get ready for the long sleep during the cold winter months. It is woods set in flames by the bright red, orange, and yellow leaves. It is crisp, chilly air in the morning and star filled midnight blue sky at night. It is also a time for soups and stews that warm and comfort, and hot tea and cocoa before bed at night (and you definitely not have to be a child to enjoy that!). It's a time to slow down, relax, read and prepare for my winter rest...more or less. Whatever your view on what the change in season means ~ enjoy it and let it restore your energy, lift your spirit, and have fun with it.

Take care and enjoy the season...