My attempt at Jack Skeleton.
So, I’m blogging from my cedar deck, drinking home-made mulled cider and enjoying this unbelievably warm fall weather. The moon is shining through the perfect Halloween clouds and we have just finished carving pumpkins (see image). This was my attempt at Jack Skeleton from “Nightmare Before Christmas”. It’s been a couple years since I’ve carved pumpkins so I’ve lost my touch, if I ever had one to start with. I was pretty proud of myself, considering the tools that I had to use, a fillet knife and paring knife. My mom has the seeds in a warm 225º oven. Let the leaves fall, the cider flow, and the candles burn; Autumn is here.
What is everyone dressing up as for Halloween and what’s your favorite part of fall?
You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
author unknown.
I’d like to take my first blog post to complain about the lack of motivation that Fall brings. I find myself sitting a lot and thinking about doing anything except the important things that I’m suppose to be doing, such as school, homework, or going to work. All I want to do is go take pictures andday-dream . Part of this, I know, is because of the amazing colors that fall brings and all of the awesome photo opportunities. One might disagree with me when I say that Fall has the most brilliant color schemes [Spring coming in second, in myopinion .] The fact that I work in retail makes me compare the leaves to colors like burnt amber and caramel apple red. This, unfortunately, is the start of winter and with that starts the season of sitting, eating, and gaining weight. I have been working out in order to keep my weight at least where I’m at right now. We’ll see how that goes considering that my motivation is at an all year low around this time. How do you keep yourself motivated and focused when you “fall” into a funk?
