Autumn 2019 Bucket List

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." - George Eliot

I 💛 fall too and there’s so much that I want to do!

• Enjoy the fall colors here at home, up north, in Central Park, and in the Luxembourg Gardens (✓-)

• Decorate with white pumpkins, mums, and fall-scented candles (✓)

• Wear cozy sweaters, scarves, and boots (with pants and skirts, of course!) (✓)

• Enjoy the Wine and Harvest Festival in Cedarburg (✓)

• Explore and take pictures during Doors Open Milwaukee - September 28th (✓)

• Spend the first weekend in October in New York City (✓)

  • Discover Chelsea and Greenwich Village (✓)

  • Visit the 9/11 Memorial and One World Trade Center (✓)

  • Learn new things at the Google Offices

  • Have Breakfast at Tiffany’s (✓)

  • See Wicked on Broadway (✓)

  • Stroll in Central Park (✓)

  • Visit old friends (✓)

• Have a bon fire in the back yard and roast marshmallows

• Drink hot apple cider with a cinnamon stick (✓)

• Go to Ladies' Night Out in Delafield with friends

• Watch Packers games (including the 10/20 game at WOS Bar in Paris!) (✓)

• Spend a week in Paris in October with Eric and Nan + Mark (✓)

  • Stroll down the Champs-Élysées, in the Latin Quarter, up in Montmartre, in the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens, in the Palais Royal, and along the Rue de Rivoli (✓)

  • Check on Notre Dame (✓)

  • Hope to step upon Point Zéro (Sadly, you can’t get near Point Zéro)

  • Visit with French friends (✓)

  • Watch the Eiffel Tower sparkle (✓)

  • Make a lovely lunch with fresh ingredients from the market on the Avenue President Wilson (✓)

  • Stop for wine, lunch, and coffee in cafés (✓)

  • Stop for tea and macarons at Ladurée and choux at Odette (✓)

  • Browse in book shops (✓)

  • Enjoy a dinner cruise on the Seine just like Audrey Hepburn and Carey Grant in Charade (✓)

  • Sip cocktails at the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz (✓)

• Take a walk in the morning fog (✓)

• Make butternut squash soup, chili, and wild rice soup (✓)

• Cuddle with Piper by the fire (✓)

• Spend a weekend in Door County

• Buy Macintosh apples from Wood's in Fish Creek

• Shop at the Farmer's Market

• Go to the Delafield Halloween festivities

• Pick out pumpkins and carve jack-o-lanterns

• Roast pumpkin seeds

• Listen to Halloween Party Radio on Pandora (✓)

• Watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (✓)

• See A Modern Vision: European Masterworks exhibits at the Milwaukee Art Museum

• Take lots of photos (✓)

Ironically, I did really enjoy the colors in Paris and New York, but not in Wisconsin. We didn’t make it to Sturgeon Bay before it snowed — on October 31st! At home, I was just beginning to notice the leaves changing when we returned from Paris, but again, the Halloween snow quickly put an end to that. Oh well, next year….

International Day of Peace

“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.” - Menachem Begin

Week 38 - Composition: Rule of Odds in Urbanscape/Architecture

“We entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual.” - Pliny the Elder

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Week 37 - Storytelling: Seasons

“If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.” - Lucy Larcom

“The weather is changing! Find inspiration in the seasons.” - It’s apple season in Wisconsin #dogwoodweek37 #dogwood52 #2019dogwood52

60 Years

"Real love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach

On September 12, 1959, Bob Larson and Kay Olson got married 💍 Today, they’re dancing in Heaven ❤️ Happy 60th Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Week 36 - Inspiration: Your Habits - Some habits are good and some are bad.

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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