Weekend doings

It’s been a fairly decent little weekend. Saturday dawned beautifully and I was up and out of the house early to go shopping for something to wear to a wedding I’ve been invited to next weekend.

The owner of the property came over later on with some members of his family and they practiced skeet shooting in the front yard, shooting towards the empty field that lies on the south side of the property. I love the fact that owner’s father taught him right at this spot and that now his son is passing on the skill to his children.

I took pictures of everyone with his wife’s camera. She’d told me she couldn’t be here but had sent it along hoping that they’d take some photos.

After a bit, I came inside and went online to Pioneer Woman’s site and was utterly shocked that she’d included the photo that I’d submitted in her most recent photography assignments. I haven’t submitted anything there lately because there are just so many entries that it boggles my mind. But this time, the theme was ‘Your Favorite’ and I figured it really didn’t matter. I chose this photo of my husband fishing, not because of its artistic merits but simply because it’s one of my favorites. I’m in Group 3 and the other entries are fantastic.

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My trip to the mall didn’t take very long earlier. I had my mind set on an idea of what I wanted and went to a lot of different shops to get some inspiration.

 

This necklace at Banana Republic really caught my eye. But I really didn’t have time to build an outfit around a necklace.

In the end, I found everything at Ann Taylor, which I saved for my last stop, knowing it was probably where I’d find what I was looking for. I chose a pale grey silk diagonal ruffled top and paired it with an ivory-colored open front cardigan. I already have the slacks I’ll wear with it. The most fun element was that the salesclerk was one of our graduates from a couple of years ago and I loved this necklace that she picked out for me. And it was on sale (even better).

Sunday wasn’t so great. Remember the question about the recurring dream from Friday’s Q&A? Well, oddly enough, I had another of mine. They’re nightmares, these dreams, and this one left me feeling out of sorts for quite some time. I always have a bunch of people I’m trying to save and get to a safe place and I always end up losing some. I get frustrated that I can’t save them all. I did get outside and took a good long walk in this chilly weather we’re having and then went back for the camera and macro lens and got a lot of photos of things that had fallen to the ground.

I had a bit of a tiff with my husband. I think it was about sheets. I like my sheets of soft cotton and he prefers flannel as soon as the weather changes. I’m sure this is why my parents and so many of that generation had twin beds . . .

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I love the colors of the leaf in the photo above and will post more this week of things I found on the ground. Yeah, it’s exciting business around here, isn’t it?

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Q&A. I read so many interesting answers that I’d like to share with you this week. Hope you all have a good start to yours.

Until tomorrow, then . . .