Summer's Flower

New life plan: become a sunflower farmer. How beautiful life would

be to wake up in the morning and see hundreds of sunny faces smiling

happily at me. These cheerful flowers would be my friends and family.

They would bring joy to each and every day. They would bring new

meaning to simplicity. My music would be the murmur of the bees and

the leaves rustling in the wind. My hands would be covered in dirt and

I would exclaim that my fingernails are never clean. At night, on the

porch of my farm house that overlooked my fields of yellow, I would

 sit in my wooden rocking chair and bask in the night's warm breeze.

Care to join me in my overly romanticized world?

And now back to reality. Autumn is just around the corner, and the

signs are beginning to show. Some trees are eager to change and their

tips are the colour of fire. The nights are reminiscent of the peak of

summer, but the nights hold a coldness to them that has me bundling

up for warmth. The farmer's market has exploded with apples and

pumpkins, and pies of both. Fields are full of rolled hay and yards

are full of cut wood.  While I do find myself drawn towards

warmer colours, I'm not ready for the tights, boots, or sweaters just

yet.  I want cute flats and bare arms and legs. The time for layering

will come, there's no doubt about that. On a recent thrifting outing

it would appear that autumn was on my mind, for everything I chose

belonged to the brown colour spectrum, such as this linen dress. 

Often considered a drab colour, I find brown to be down-to-earth.

Just say these colours out loud: burnt sienna, caramel, coffee, copper,

chocolate, chestnut. Doesn't that make you all warm inside - and maybe

a bit hungry? I'm happy though, autumn seems to be the only time

of year that wearing brown actually gets you compliments!

Outfit:

All items thrifted