Brisk and Beautiful.

Brrr!

The weather has taken a change this week and it's been considerably colder outside from how it's been normally lately. I love this weather. Today felt like it was October. You know, perfect weather for tossing on jeans and a sweater or sweatshirt.

The sun didn't shine much, but that's okay with me. Days like today make me feel rejuvenated. I'm not sure why since it makes most people feel depressed--maybe from being born in the Pacific Northwest. I must have spent a good two hours out walking today. Not many people share the way I feel it seems, or at least not many like walking in weather like this. I pretty much had the streets to myself.

I used to go into work in the mornings and talk to a dear friend on days such as this one, explaining how I got ready for work by candle light. I'd pretend that I was living up in the mountains and didn't have electricity. I'd imagine I was in a little stone cottage out in the forest with gorgeous mountain surrounding me. Which would end as soon as I stepped out my back door into the flat flatness of Chicago and enter hellish traffic. It was a nice relaxing way to get ready for work at any rate.

Its refreshing to take part in such activities every now and again, even if they are silly.

I finished the day with a walk in this fall weather as the night's sky blanketed over me with a hot, absolutely scrumptious, mocha in hand. Mmmm.