While much of the world is going inside…

feeling cozy and warm

WE, here in the tropics,

are opening our doors and windows

Letting some long awaited cool{ish} breezes

to come wafting in

Welcome Fall!

You gotta try this….

I am SINGING the praises of

this here

knife.

I got it for my birthday

every girl’s dream, no?  But…YES!

I am AMAZED how beautifully

it works

compared to every knife I have ever, ever used. In my whole whole life.

and I only use them for cooking….should this post sound a bit…odd.

See those wobbly lines? each is another layer of the metal…

the knife has no drag, and releases amazingly.

Every time I use it…I keep saying OMG….and ask ANYONE around to try it.

I was not approached or paid by SHUN to say this.

They are just THAT good.

OMG….you have to try this.

SHUN knives. 

Carry on.

Finding fall in the subtropics….and a pumpkin recipe…

It is always a different kind of fall

that we celebrate here in the subtropics

Our lemons are fruiting

variegated lemon…pink inside!

We feel the change in the climate…subtlety. We see the change in colors…Beautifully.

It rolls in much slower, more casually.

Daring you to notice.

Blue ginger

Paths throughout our jungle of a yard

I love finding some of these vestiges of seasonal changes and bringing them in the house

with some small pumpkin gourds in an old French baguette mold

Then using some vegetables of the season…creating a touch of fall for dinner

I used some canned pumpkin pasta sauce….but you could make your own

  

Pumpkin and Fontina Cheese Lasagna

Based on a recipe from here (click on photo)

Happy Fall in your corner of this wonderful world!

I live in my own little world…

But they know me here.

 

Still fiddling.

I move at a snails pace.

???

Great little graphic from Charlotte Anabar

First day of fall….well, it IS orange (ish)…

 

 

Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”
                  ― William Cullen Bryant

And THEN she went and painted the….

 

Midcentury Modern Credenza

And in the end….everybody survived.

Except maybe the philodendron leaf.

Ideas for what to put on said painted piece….It all can stay. Or go.

I keep all of my pieces on their BEST behavior that way.

Yep.

It was inevitable…..

Who was I fooling?

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