It is fall here in Birmingham, and I love it!! This weekend was especially lots of fun! My friend Elizabeth was here all weekend for a wedding, and I enjoyed every minute of her company when we wasn’t at one of the million wedding festivities leading up to the actual ceremony. We enjoyed being outside, and breathing in fresh air! We walked, talked, slept, and all the other wonderful things that come along with a relaxing weekend.
Saturday morning we enjoyed coffee + bagels at Crestline Bagel. We talked about the new Beth Moore study on Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman. The study explores Esther’s courage, and parallels that to today’s women in the modern world. Here is a sample session if you’d like to explore.
After that we headed to the Birminham Botanical Gardens for the Antiques in the Garden event that has been taking place all weekend. It was lots of FUN. There were dealers there from all over the nation.
There were lots of things I really liked. Lots of flow blue, majolica, two “BEAUTY”FUL 18th c. knife boxes, oriental rugs, and the list goes on and on. But this chair (one of a pair) in particular I thought was so pretty I snapped a picture.
For a more festive taste of what the event was like….
A local Birmingham landscape company created this citrus/fruit arrangement. I talked to one of the men who worked on putting it together, he assured me that it was A LOT (yes, with emphasis) harder to put together than it looked. He did not have to convience me of that, things are always more difficult than they might appear when it comes to any realm of design.
We ended the visit with a walk over the to Japanese Gardens area at the botanical garden. For now all you get is a glimpse! It is definitely worth a trip of your own if you are in the area. Besides, who does not want to be outside when the weather is so darn amazing out!! I knew I didn’t have an October birthday for nothing…I LOVE FALL!
P.S. WAR EAGLE!!!!!!! I was at a wedding last night, so I did not get to watch the game, but believe me I knew the moment we won!!