.daily film : heritage.

my parents' house is beautiful all the time, but the light hits everything a certain way in the fall. shining through the pine trees, it turns golden, warm. my dad has been working hard to build up the wood supply for the winter. they heat the house entirely with the wood stove. i love the way the grass is growing into this lower deck.

and the chickens. i love these chickens. i'll have chickens, too, some day.

.daily film : grove farm.

yes, i know, more hawai'i pictures. hopefully you like them at least half as much as i do? i figured that since it's vintage photo friday (which will be up this afternoon), i should just run with a vintage/antique theme. so, here goes.

this amazingly beautiful place is called grove farm and is a preserved sugar plantation. it's pretty much greenfield village, but in hawai'i. i'm sure you can imagine my excitement when eric's parents told me we were going to this place. and oh man, was it so cool. i don't think i even posted any pictures of grove farm when we got back from hawai'i, which is definitely a shame.

anyway, these particular pictures are from the main home of the plantation. this house has a huge amazing wrap around porch. these are all from the same porch, but each side of the house had a slightly different feel to it. yes, the floors really are that shiny! it was really cool seeing them in person. we had to take our shoes off to go in the house, and the shiny floors captured the heat of the sun a little bit too efficiently. i was walking in the shadows, ha!

can't you just imagine yourself sitting in one of those lovely rocking chairs, reading a gripping hawai'ian novel, sipping an iced tea and watching the wild hawai'ian chickens running around your expansive lawn? sigh...

.daily film : the village.

no, not the movie 'the village', though i do like it. greenfield village, of course! as you saw yesterday, this week has been very cold in southeast michigan. the perfect weather for lounging in bed and getting out the down comforter. so cozy.

these are a couple of my favorite bedrooms in greenfield village. both are color slide film, which i absolutely love to use! too bad it's so darn expensive to have processed...

isn't the quilt on the first bed just gorgeous? greenfield village has some really great textiles in their collection. love!

p.s. this is where eric and i are getting married! in exactly a year from tomorrow. our ceremony will be in the martha mary chapel and the reception will be in the eagle tavern, which is a michigan tavern from the 1850s. it's so beautiful inside. and there will be two fires lit! it'll be so wonderfully cozy. looking back, i can't believe that i never posted the photos from my "you're getting married here" tour of the chapel and tavern. note so self!

.daily film : frost.

we've pretty much gotten a hard frost every night this week. it's been so cold! i've been hearing that it's been beautiful in the new england area, and have been pretty jealous. it looks beautiful here, but feels very chilly.

it's good weaving weather. i'll have pictures soon (maybe for tomorrow's daily film post) of the scarf i just started. it's for my beloved sister, erika.

on a side note, the guy who reads my natural gas meter just came by and i could hear him whistling through the window. a nice surprise!

.daily film : crabapple.

we have two of these in front of our house and i love them this time of year. a perfect dose of color just outside the windows.

.daily film : melitta.

i love brewing coffee with this beautiful object. my parents are friends with a couple who have built their own ceramic and glass studio. they're super cool. mark, who is the primary ceramic artist, made a batch of ceramic melittas last year. i love mine so much. the naked clay is beautiful. the light coming through the filter is lovely.

i think i need to make this a part of my morning routine more often. i go to my starbucks (since i work there) a lot in the mornings, but on my mornings off, i need to spend more quality time with my melitta.

what's your favorite part of your morning routine?

.daily film : geranium.

it's been getting cold here. which i'm not very happy about... i don't mind it right now, but it will just keep getting worse. and then the w-word comes. nooooooo!

anyway, because of this change in temperature, i brought my scented geraniums in. i've read that they can survive the winter as houseplants and, since i only have one, i figured it would be quite nice to have them inside. i was right. they're so lovely. especially in that south-facing window when they're backlit by the sun. they also smell really good when they're warmed by the sun. mmmmm!

the way the light filters through them is so beautiful.

do you have indoor plants? what have you found to be an easy plant to care for, i may need more!