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September Eve and all it brings.

August 31, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner 8 Comments

September Eve

Happy September Eve, everyone! I’m always happy to see August come to an end. Are you? Even though we’ll no doubt have more hot, humid days, there’s just something about flipping the calendar to September that makes me wanna dance. I also feel a little melancholy about the things I never got around to doing. That summer bucket list I wrote? Yeah, I didn’t tick off everything, but I suppose technically I still have time to do a few more things.

Do I dare do a fall bucket list?
Of course.
But not yet.
Maybe when fall officially rolls around. Right now, I’m living in those in-between days still savoring the things I love about summer (like nectarines and walking barefoot) yet looking for fall in the dogwood leaves already tinged with orange.Continue Reading

If Fall was a place…

August 26, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner 6 Comments

yellow leaf

Fall hangs just around the corner. I sense it in the breeze and especially in the shade when we walk Lucy and Annabelle. The leaves are beginning to change on the trees in Northwest Arkansas, and this makes me so-so-SO happy.

If fall was a place, I’d look forward to returning each year, excited to see familiar sights and inhale familiar smells. I’d sit on the back porch and drink it in slowly with crushed ice and fresh lemon and mint from the garden.Continue Reading

Pictured: after the rain

November 19, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 3 Comments

P i c t u r e d: after the rain…

wet tomatoes

 

raindrops on roses

 

after the rain

  1. Last of the tomatoes.
  2. Raindrops on roses.
  3. Fall leaves.

Like most of the country, we’ve had wild weather and lots of rain this week. Continue Reading

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Baylor graduate. Author of

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