with temps in the 90s late in september
this kinder has it right
or perhaps it never left?
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“i haven’t had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven’t left it.”
-mick jagger
Sep27
Tag Archives: fall
Sep23
falling.
fall is only ‘fall’ to americans, even though the term was coined in britain.
what do you call the picking of ripe sweet potatoes, apples, squash and pumpkins?
harvest.
that was the word used until the 1300s to describe the next few months of weather.
because “harvest” also meant the gathering of ripe crops, when the word “autumn” showed up in english writing, its popularity soared.
some time after, poets coined the phrase “the fall of leaves” — shortened to “fall” in the 1600s.
the word “autumn” still remained popular throughout england’s period of colonizing the world.
the lack of consistent communication between the english and the people in the american colonies led to differences in the language.
by the mid-1800s, the word “fall” had firmly rooted itself in america.
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and apparently something was again lost in translation
when communicating with mother nature
as yesterday was the official first day of
fall/harvest/autumn
and our temps in michigan were in the 90s.
(photo: fuller park, ann arbor, mi, usa)
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credit: cnn news
Sep13
september tries.
“september tries its best to have us forget summer. “
-bernard williams
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leslie woods park, ann arbor, michigan, usa
(now deep into the 90’s of the 160 parks adventure)
Nov23
eating.
enjoy your people tomorrow
no matter who or what they may be.
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‘the only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. “
-john walters
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credit: the new yorker
Nov13
catch.
an autumn afternoon in ann arbor on the huron river
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“slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
~john de paola
Nov1
november gathering.
the kinders and their fall collection.
Oct26
leaf chaps.
with fall comes the ultimate scourge of lawn work: raking leaves. all of those gorgeous, oxygen-giving trees in your backyard become instruments of torture, littering their leafy bounty all over the lawn and sidewalk.
according to the inventor of the the leaf pants, the leaves aren’t the problem. it’s the rake – that pronged nightmare that strains backs, blisters hands, and poses a real threat if left lying in the grass. but a leaf-blower isn’t the answer either. instead, the inventor insists, what humanity needs is a method that is “compatible with the natural body movement of a person.”
enter the ‘leaf chaps’, a pair of zip-on, flexible tubes that slip over pant legs with a net fastened between the two so you can gather leaves as you stroll. the net corrals the leaves and collects them in front of you, so with just a few extra steps, you’re forming piles that are easily picked up later.
not merely convenient, the chaps also promise to make you more productive. rather than struggle with bulky tools, do something you’d be doing anyway (walking around your lawn), while getting work done! sure, that walk is more like a waddle, but that’s the price you pay for innovation.
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“if you’re not prepared to be wrong,
you’ll never come up with anything original.”
– sir ken robinson
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credits: mental floss magazine
Oct14
out of doors.
Oct3
sandals.
just one more good reason why i wear sandals until after halloween.
Woman scares off crocodile with flip-flop in Australia
2 October 2016
A woman has scared away a salt water crocodile, which was swimming towards her and her dog, by slapping her flip-flop at it. It is thought that are at least 120 crocodiles in this stretch of the East Alligator River, in Kakadu National Park. The last fatal attack there was in 1987.
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“life is too short to wear boring shoes.”
-author unknown
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credits: bbcnews.com
Sep22
let things go.
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credit: wordporn
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