sweetly sound

With the arrival of my sister yesterday morning, Wedding Palooza has begun.

First up: rehearsal and dinner, tonight.

Tomorrow evening, The Main Event...

Followed by hours of dancing and laughing and celebrating!

Saturday is a family brunch at the  home of the bride's parents.

Then, the best part of all...

Happily ever after!

Congratulations my darlings! Love you SO much!

Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,

Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook

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wild with leaves

"Listen!  the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"-  Humbert Wolfe

All photos from the lovely blog tales of a junkaholic. Go, look, enjoy!



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don't you love a cushioned seat

My living room is sorely lacking in the throw cushion department. Actually, it's not that I don't have cushions, it's just that I'm not thrilled with the ones I do have. At least I'm not thrilled with them in my living room.

So I'm on the hunt. 

How do you like your throw pillows? Matching pairs, carefully coordinated, lined up just so? One-of-a-kinds, tossed casually here and there? Perhaps you're a purist, preferring your soft furnishings naked? 

Show me your favorite looks, will you, thank you, please?

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Don't you stay at home of evenings?

Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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no end to the adventures

We took the ferry from Berneray to the Isle of Skye, where we spent a few days in the capital Portree (population: 2491.)

From the pastel painted houses along the harbor, to the tiny square in the center of town, Portree is  picturesque straight-off-a-postcard lovely.

  

We walked, and shopped, and ate, and laughed. We laughed a lot. (Shopped plenty, too!)

 

View of the harbor, from the hostel kitchen.

Every time we passed this restaurant I chuckled. Every time.

You can only buy this delicious perfume on Skye, or pay the Queen's ransom in shipping to have it posted.  Did I purchase a bottle there, while I was standing in The Tartan Company, inhaling and moaning? No. Of course not. Is it worth the postage to order it online? Oh yes. Definitely yes.

Too soon it was time to leave. The route across "The Misty Isle" to Edinburgh was breathtaking.

 

 

 I know - so beautiful, it's hard to believe it's real!

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. 

There is no end to the adventures we can have 

if only we seek them with our eyes open.” 

–Jawaharial Nehru

Ahead - final stop: Edinburgh.

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