EVERYBODY deserves 49 seconds of peace…

Use your 49 seconds wisely :).  

Sharing a slice of ours…

With YOU.

Autumnal sunshine. Or, walking around on a lazy fall day…

Hanging lanterns waiting for cooler nights to be lit and sparkle

Some still budding

Others…

fading.

.

Gates to the secret garden jungle

painted

adorned with a new handle.

Jungle continuing to jungle

Those are hoses. not snakes.

I think monkeys may live here.

With us.

one never knows, in the jungle.

Forgotten statues become unearthed when the leaves drop.

...I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

                                                                                                     ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10th October 1842

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!