Wedding Weekend

The wedding was beautiful and we had a great time. We arrived Thursday evening to Crane Point Lodge in Blue Mountain, NY in the heart of the Adirondacks. The foliage was in full color and the lodge was nestled on Blue Mountain Lake. We enjoyed the area on Friday and Saturday morning while also preparing for the wedding. I made a grievous error and booked my son's air travel to Albany, GA instead of Albany, NY so spent a good part of Friday rearranging his travel to NY instead of from Atlanta to Albany, GA and it was expensive!!

Friday we went to Old Forge to do a little walking around, shopping, eating, and all round having fun. I bought some yarn at the General Store--they have a bona-fide yarn store inside the general store. It's in the back in front of the book store. Heaven! I bought hand-dyed fingering yarn that is variegated to knit a shawl. I'm gonna love it. While there I finished reading The Land of the Mango Sunsets by Dorthea Benton Frank on my Kindle.

The wedding was in the backyard of the Lodge. We had gorgeous flowers in Adirondack Packs that were stunning---fall flowers nestled on Adirondack chairs and flowers and fall leaves everywhere. The ladies had fall flower bouquets. Laura was beautiful in her navy beaded gown. Jonathan was handsome in his light brown suit. They are a good looking couple and are very happy with one another. The ceremony was short but really sweet. We come out into the yard to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys. Then after the ceremony we had drinks and appetizers until the dinner was ready. We had toasts and kind words all around, then enjoyed a scrumptious dinner and wedding cake. We stayed up late sitting around the table talking. I enjoyed hearing young people talk about what interests them. Jonathan's brother has a cutie-pie toddler Zoe who was delightful. She is almost a year and a half and jibber-jabbers and laughs and is fun to be around.

After this great weekend it was a letdown to come back to the real world. But we persevere.

One of my book clubs is reading The Book Thief this month and thankfully I've finished it because the other one is reading Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe--our classic for the year. It is LONG and I'm slogging my way through it.

Knitting--- an entrelac scarf, a sweater, two pairs of socks that have to be finished pronto, and other scarves that I've put off finishing but now it is time. The entrelac scarf is in Boku and I think really needs to be lightly felted so I'm making it as long as the yarn lasts so that it won't be shrunk too short. I may give it to Laura for Christmas. I need to finish some other gifts and items for the auction at church, so I've got a lot to accomplish.

LOVE CAPS Gathering is coming along--enough said. More after it is finished on Oct. 18.

In the meantime next weekend is the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville--got to go to that!

So, a lot is going on and I'm working on it furiously, well, sort of working on it while trying to get back in the swing. We spent so much time anticipating the wedding that we are in that "after Christmas funk." However, we will get the pictures soon and that will pump us back up.

Meanwhile---it's cool here and the air is crisp in the early morning--it might be fall soon.

That's the way it is................