The Weather Is My Homepage.

One of my hobbies is being hyper aware of the weather conditions.

As a young lass, I always enjoyed the weather portion of the evening news;

this ritual helped me get really excited about the coming day.

I like the idea of being aware of the predictions involving 

natural phenomenons

--YES I consider daily weather a phenomenon in nature, it's so beautiful!! And hello we could very well wake up one day to a nice good morning sky of flaming fire or black abyssiveness!!!-- and then 

ACTUALLY WITNESSING THEM...

like seeing/hearing that it's going to rain and then 

SEEING IT RAIN!!

Ahhh simple pleasures.

Since I'm temporarily not on facebook ((for really no reason in specificular)) I HAVE to have something that I can check constantly.

I finally made weather.com my homepage because it was my most visited website.

I just realized an epsick, hip, new, heel-kick worthy feature...

YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE WEATHER WILL BE LIKE EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES!!!!

((ECSTATIC is this weather-obsessed chica))

That Leaf Girl: Part One

This year I started a leaf collection. Mostly I just took pictures of my leaves because they die quickly and I have not yet mastered their preservation. 

I love leaves. 

So passionately much.

I delight in the way the Lord has planned their colorings ((hello who else matches brown with red and FULLY rocks it??!!))

I am fascinated by their various shapings. 

I find peace in laying out on a deeply green lawn and looking up at the trees...watching the leaves fall. A pastime only for those with the utmost patience...or just those sickly obsessed, like myself. 

It is an obsession.

Sometimes I wander around campus or my neighborhood looking up at the trees. I am that leaf girl. 

I have many friends who found leaves and given them to me. Others have mailed me leaves from their homes in other states...even a dear friend who collected leaves for many months inside a notebook and then sent it to me...!!!! Talk about blessed!! 

Others have shared with me about how they have had their eyes opened to the beautiful leaves around them because of me. That makes me SO DEEPLY JOYFUL. Some have even started their OWN collections, HALLA!!!!

Please, enjoy the trees in your day, leaf and be merry.