Local Saturday - Last Day of Fall and A Blue Sky Holiday Season

That thud you heard sometime between Wednesday and Friday was me falling off the Small Business Saturday wagon.

A year after a series of deaths during the holiday season, I was depressed.  

Yes, I was.

But on Wednesday, I saw a double rainbow.  And it was like something clicked in me.

I wanted to enjoy the beauty of the holiday season - the poinsettias, the glittering lights, and and, yes, even the music.  Everything that brought me pain this year was somehow all different now.

So, I admit it.  I shopped on Wednesday.  I shopped online on Thanksgiving and went to the mall at 4:30 pm with my spouse to exercise walk.

I celebrated my weight loss on Black Friday with three pair of jeans in various colors and several inexpensive tops.   I ordered some new curtains.  It was like a weight had been lifted off me.

For Small Business Saturday, we went to a local nursery.  I just can't stay away from plants.

This is what I bought, along with a self watering pot for my small Lyndon Lyon African violet.

My Lyndon Lyon African Violet.   The variegated leaves are hard to see but they are there.

On Black Friday, I had already bought an amaryllis (ready to be forced) and this poinsettia.

This afternoon, I took a walk with my spouse.  The sun was out, probably because we are due for a major snowstorm tomorrow.   The bare bushes looked so beautiful against the blue skies.

Dried grasses glowed in the glare of the sun.

It was a wonderful weekend, feeling happy once again, on this last day of fall (according to the weather). 

Tomorrow, the snow and true winter comes to where I live in New York.