Exploration
I love to explore. I love finding new places, trying different things, learning new skills (even when I suck at them). There’s just something so energizing about going or doing something you’ve never done before. It enriches your mind and enlarges your world.
And you don’t need to travel halfway around the world to go somewhere new! We probably all have places practically in our own backyards that we’ve never been to. Maybe you’ve said you’ll get there or try that someday.
Taking a dark turn here, but…my girlfriend called me this afternoon, shaken up because her neighbor had died suddenly during the night. She was not old, she was not sick…but now she is dead. Which is just a reminder to me not let someday never come. Make someday happen now.
Which is part of what made us plan our little impromptu trip this past weekend. We’ve been holed up due to covid for many months. She had lots of travel plans this year…they’ve all been canceled. I had been looking forward to doing a couple overnight trips this summer…but the pandemic made me forget all this year’s optimistic plans. But now we thought…things are better here (relatively speaking, and people are still being careful), we are allowed to travel within the state. So – off we went!
You’ll hear more about the whole trip in another post next week, today I’m just sharing one fun place. My friend is very good at seeking out the different and unusual in any area…so on our way home from Woodstock on Monday, we made a slight detour to check out Fabulous Furniture in Boiceville, NY, where Steve Heller displays all his spaceship-esque art made from old car parts and other machinery.
It was magical.
And HOT.
Too hot for walking in a dress. Thigh sweat. Nuff said. But this lightweight sleeveless rayon top was easy-breezy. I bought this 3-4 years ago in TJ Maxx but it was too small so it’s been in the “sell” tub. I tried it recently when I was looking through the tub for something else and ding ding ding ding ding we have a winner! I’m grateful for the find, as coronavirus and months of work-from-home made me hesitant to buy the summer shirts on my “need” list. But now I’m out in the world and it is HOT and I really NEED some good hot weather tops! I’m also really enjoying my new sandals. I walked all day Sunday in them and there was no painful break-in period, which was lovely. And while jeans are not my preferred pant for summer, these white ones are the best option I have right now.
When I looked at the pictures I thought…if I could have a white pant in a more pliable fabric – linen or tencel – so they hung a little more softly, that was snugger in the waist so they wouldn’t slip down, and looser in the calf so they wouldn’t get “stuck” there causing all that bagging at the knee, that would be a pretty perfect pant.
Is it obnoxious that I’m saying “pant”? Ha ha, I get it. But it’s faster and less cumbersome than saying “pair of pants” over and over again. Why is one pair of pants a plural word, anyway? And why is it “a pair”? Did they used to be singles, for one leg only, so you’d need a pair? I know stockings were that way. But pants? I don’t know.
I’ll have to explore that.
Where or what have you explored lately?
What I’m Wearing
- Navy embroidered rayon top by Solitaire, 3x. Comparable here and here in plus and here and here in straight sizes.
- White Old Navy cropped ankle jeans, size 24 short
- Taupe suede Birkenstocks
- Target/A New Day sunglasses
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Marceline Miller
“back to the FUCHSIA” lolol!!
Birkenstocks…they are just the greatest. Worth every cent. I once had a pair I wore for EIGHT years. They were paying me to wear them at the end…
bettyewp
Yeah, I fought against them for So Long. But my good experience with the Mephistos (that I’ve been wearing since 1998!!!), the first “footbed” shoe I ever had, encouraged me to give the Birks a more open-minded look. Mephistos don’t currently have a style I like, so…Birks it was! I actually got TWO pairs, in two different styles, the other is slightly dressier…well, less clunky, anyway 🙂 But I’m enjoying them very much.
jodie filogomo
That’s what I’ve been saying lately. Life is too short to not go out and explore. I’d rather die having fun than stay alive and have no quality of life. I’m so glad you got out and about because you go to the funnest places.
XOOX
Jodie
PS…The only pants I’ve been wearing lately are palazzo pants!!
bettyewp
Palazzo pants sound awesome.
Iris
Just reading your and Jodie’s comments. I LOVE palazzo pants, have several pairs and have been wearing them a lot this summer.
On to your interesting venture. I love all the ‘sculptures’ (if that’s what you call them). Someone has quite an imagination.
And you’re right, so often we think to have an “adventure” we have to go far away, when most often there are really fun things in our own back yard. We tried to make that a ‘thing’ as we lived in different places when my kids were very young, and it was always fun.
Grace & Peace,Iris
http://www.IrisOriginalsRamblings.com
bettyewp
My mother and I used to love to go for rides. When I’d go with her to the market, afterwards she’d say “do you want to take the tour?” and that meant did I want to drive around our or a neighboring neighborhood. REALLY nothing out of the ordinary, but we’d see who’d done new landscaping, who was putting in a pool, who had a new car in the driveway, who hadn’t mown their lawn. It was a 10-minute trip but it was better than just going straight home. I don’t think I EVER said no to taking the tour. Even now, I like taking different routes to the same ol’ places just to see SOMETHING different.
julia
Oh you’re using this already instead of waiting for next Friday. Uh-oh. I’m going to have to up my game. Or at least go somewhere more interesting than the creek! Honestly, I’m thinking about just going out for a drive to get a change of scenery but maybe I’ll take your idea and find some place nearby that I haven’t discovered yet. Oh, all the interesting places to go in farm country! Have a fun weekend Bettye!
bettyewp
Nope, I have more reserved for my vacation post next Friday! This was just an outfit post amongst the spaceships 🙂 I love exploratory drives. Even in relatively known territory. We tend to go to the same places by the same routes over and over again it’s amazing what you can find if you just take some back roads or turn left when you usually turn right or go around behind the thing and see what’s there. Hope you find something good!