Iowa City fall fashion

We made our annual October visit to Iowa City/University of Iowa campus. There is so much to love about this place. The drive is right out of American Gothic and what's not to love about the vibe of a college campus? We spent our time at a fun breakfast joint (Hamburg Inn, home of politicos during the presidential caucus), thrift shops, the Museum of Natural History, Prairie Lights (where Kurt Vonnegut used to hang), and the myriad shops. There are some really fun clothing stores on the pedestrian mall. Unfortunately, the one I really wanted to go into was already closed when we passed by.

Walking

This street is next to ours. It doesn't have sidewalks, which is charming. I so love the red barn house and I like the first house on this post for its Great Expectations/Grey Gardens qualities.

Leaves

On the ground in our 'hood and on the mantel in our house...in the middle of the street.

Pretty flowers

sure help me stay motivated at work for some reason.

More...from Grass Doe

Can you stand it?

These images are so beautiful. From a site called grassdoe.blogspot.com. I can't find anything about the photographer, unfortunately.

Sunday running route

My 8-mile run was especially beautiful today with gray skies and fall color. The run takes me by old homes, the edge of downtown, an old barn, a small pond, an old wooden bridge, and a horse farm.

Market Saturday

I'm not much into teddy bears, but this one upstairs at the media foundry for Market Saturday in downtown looked friendly.

That 70s window

We'll see how this window in our kitchen will do in growing herbs. It's great when the weather is mild. Not so helpful when it's below zero. Eventually we want to replace it, but I'd like to make it useful until then.

Alex the cat

This is probably one of the best pix on my blog because my husband took it. And he doesn't even like cats, especially ours.

Roman and Williams

This is the office of the team behind such hip hotels as The Ace Hotel in NYC. I'm beyond words with their surroundings! rwpress.blogpsot.com

A couple more

pictures from Winterset. The diorama is from The Pheasant Run bar.

Winterset

Took a gray day drive to Winterset, IA, the birthplace of John Wayne and home of the covered bridges.

Delancey

I wish I was visiting Seattle in the near future. Molly, the author of Orangette, and her husband recently opened Delancey (I also happen to love that name) there, specializing in wood-fired pizzas. YUM! Visit her blog for more behind-the-scenes about opening a restaurant and mouth-watering pictures of the food.

Vancouver II

Me with stylist Janna Lufkin, who lives in Seattle. Other pix are from a walk to Stanley Park and from the Hotel Sylvia along the English Bay. Beautiful.

Vancouver

Traveled here last week for a photo shoot and loved it. I really, really like the pacific Northwest. Weather was great, views spectacular, and the shoot went really well. The bottom shot is from the Museum of Anthropology.

Reading

I'm devouring Pat Conroy's latest, South of Broad. My mom recently finished the book and loved it, and I am loving it as well. I wish that the main character, Leo, was a real person.

Fourth Grade

It's hard to believe our little man is a fourth grader. He sat down with me a few nights ago to discuss his first day of school. He really likes his teacher. Yay.

Summer trip

I had a work trip to NYC in August, so Mark and Evan joined me for Evan's first trip to the big city. I'll post some pictures soon.

Aug. 13, 2009

Aug. 13, 2009, originally uploaded by kkegans.

Made these veggie "pizzas" twice this week using produce from our garden. yum!