This Beautiful Place - Mt Si

I was so thankful to get out of the house the other day and hike 8 miles at Mt Si! This hike came highly recommended and I will definitely return to the well maintained and surprisingly shady trail. I got to share the hike with my duuuude and if that wasn't great enough, the weather was wonderful, affording us an incredible payoff for sure, 360 degree view and clear! I saw all the way past Seattle to Bainbridge Island, mini mountains with sprawling valleys and of course like, oh hey Rainier! Yeah, I'll get to you buddy. 

I certainly felt the hike by the time we were done (aaaand the next few days) and was glad to continue having an amazing afternoon at one of our favorite chow down spots - Marination! Knowing that this was probably the last good day of sitting out here in the sun, with this view, I just sat back and enjoyed every bite.

One thing I've learned to keep an eye out for on the trails up here are slugs! I came across these two lovers on the trail and while it's obvious they are snail sexing, I was certainly intrigued by exactly what was really going on here. I managed not only to answer my own questions, but I also learned quite a few other things about slugs. As it turns out snails/slugs have incredibly interesting and also somewhat mysterious sex lives, for example some species practice 'sadomasochism'. For all the details I found this article enlightening for anyone interested. 

Fall Fever

Is there such a thing as Fall overload? Definitely not! I for one am not sick of seeing Fall fever all around and even in the blogosphere. I'm having some serious Fall butterflies in my tummy, I'm just so in love! I've been missing Fall from my life for a couple years now so everyday I'm giddy to just see it everywhere around me! Normally I decorate and that's my inside Fall but this year it's reversed with TONS of Fall outside and I actually haven't been able to decorate at all. This of course makes me a bit little sad, but at least I can step outside and see real Fall decorating for me. Of course Pinterest is giving me serious Fall envy but at least if I can't actually do it I can want to do it, haha! So here are some of my favorite Fall decoration inspirations!

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