"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." - George Eliot
I 💛 fall too and there’s so much that I want to do!
Enjoy the fall colors here at home, up north, in Central Park, and in the Luxembourg Gardens (✓-)
Decorate with white pumpkins, mums, and fall-scented candles (✓)
Wear cozy sweaters, scarves, and boots (with pants and skirts, of course!) (✓)
Enjoy the Wine and Harvest Festival in Cedarburg (✓)
Explore and take pictures during Doors Open Milwaukee - September 28th (✓)
Spend the first weekend in October in New York City (✓)
Discover Chelsea and Greenwich Village (✓)
Visit the 9/11 Memorial and One World Trade Center (✓)
Learn new things at the Google Offices
Have Breakfast at Tiffany’s (✓)
See Wicked on Broadway (✓)
Stroll in Central Park (✓)
Visit old friends (✓)
Have a bon fire in the back yard and roast marshmallows
Drink hot apple cider with a cinnamon stick (✓)
Go to Ladies' Night Out in Delafield with friends
Watch Packers games (including the 10/20 game at WOS Bar in Paris!) (✓)
Spend a week in Paris in October with Eric and Nan + Mark (✓)
Stroll down the Champs-Élysées, in the Latin Quarter, up in Montmartre, in the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens, in the Palais Royal, and along the Rue de Rivoli (✓)
Check on Notre Dame (✓)
Hope to step upon Point Zéro (Sadly, you can’t get near Point Zéro)
Visit with French friends (✓)
Watch the Eiffel Tower sparkle (✓)
Make a lovely lunch with fresh ingredients from the market on the Avenue President Wilson (✓)
Stop for wine, lunch, and coffee in cafés (✓)
Stop for tea and macarons at Ladurée and choux at Odette (✓)
Browse in book shops (✓)
Enjoy a dinner cruise on the Seine just like Audrey Hepburn and Carey Grant in Charade (✓)
Sip cocktails at the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz (✓)
Take a walk in the morning fog (✓)
Make butternut squash soup, chili, and wild rice soup (✓)
Cuddle with Piper by the fire (✓)
Spend a weekend in Door County
Buy Macintosh apples from Wood's in Fish Creek
Shop at the Farmer's Market
Go to the Delafield Halloween festivities
Pick out pumpkins and carve jack-o-lanterns
Roast pumpkin seeds
Listen to Halloween Party Radio on Pandora (✓)
Watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (✓)
See A Modern Vision: European Masterworks exhibits at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Take lots of photos (✓)
Ironically, I did really enjoy the colors in Paris and New York, but not in Wisconsin. We didn’t make it to Sturgeon Bay before it snowed — on October 31st! At home, I was just beginning to notice the leaves changing when we returned from Paris, but again, the Halloween snow quickly put an end to that. Oh well, next year….
