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Despite the fact that I gave a big cheer when my husband’s bike-racing season officially wrapped up last night (with him on top of the podium – yay Joel!), I had to smile when I saw these posters on the HOW Blog this morning. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge cycling fan, but supporting a spouse’s racing gets old after 20 weeks. With that said, I love the colors (most of them anyway) and simple graphic combined with clean typography. Between all of that and the Mario Cipollini quote, I’m sold! Apparently, you can buy them here.
…about how cold the mornings have been in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. One of our valley’s great photographers — Jeremy Swanson — took this image earlier in the week. Beautiful!
Check out some of Jeremy’s work on twitpic.
This morning it was 39°F at my home down the road from Aspen (I can only imagine it was a bit colder there). That just doesn’t seem very summer-like to me and I am officially pouting. There are trees in my neighborhood I refer to as “the early-birds” because they are already turning yellow, while the majority are still green (thank you very much). The fleeting summer season is sighing her swan song here and as always it’s too early for me. I love fall and the beautiful colors that fill this valley, taking my breath away but fall means winter isn’t too far away and right now I am definitely not ready for that. Gratefully, my back yard has a late-planted-patch of sunflowers just coming into bloom, helping cheer me through the first whispers of fall’s cool breath.
September’s calendar honors those sunflowers and now, not only do I have the real thing at home, I’ve got the calendar perched on my desk, cheering me on there too! For your curiosity’s sake, our thoughts listed on the calendar back are below and the link to download your own version follows at the end of this post. Until next month and (fingers crossed) a sunny Indian summer, enjoy September!
september
ideas
air so light, movement feels oh so effortless
chilled morning and evening twilights
shortening days
images
brilliant sunflowers cheer summer’s last days
overflowing garden awaiting harvest
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greens shifting to oranges
