What I'm Loving Wednesday

Happy Wednesday friends! I'm linking up today with Rachel and friends for another What I'm Loving Wednesday!

*I have the coming weekend off


*Another few days of regular season baseball, then it's time for the playoffs!!!


*This beautiful Marlins game moment after the sad loss of their teammate, Jose Fernandez

*Author friends


*Reading and catching up with fellow bloggers


*Fall weather is back


*2017 photography projects to work toward and on   My photo blog has had some posts the past month that I am pretty proud of.


*This is Us (AMAZING show! I think it will be a cry at each episode kind of show)


What are YOU loving this week?

Travel Tuesday - Death Valley National Park

May, 2015

We took a family/business trip to Las Vegas. We took a day and drove to Death Valley National Park. We did not realize just how big that park is! We spent the day in the south maybe 1/3 of the park. There is SO much more for us to see there. Maybe another time.

The scenery is mountain/desert but beautiful nonetheless. It was HOT-they are totally NOT kidding when they say make sure your gas tank is full and you bring plenty of water! It was early May and by 11 a.m. it was 103F.

At Zabinske Point:

We drove the Artist's Palette loop - the photos do no justice to the colors in this area.

We stopped at an overlook on the loop to take a few pictures.

Badwater Basin - low and hot!

A couple more views on our way out of the park toward Las Vegas.

Until next time...

Hello!

Happy Monday!

I can't believe it's the last week of September already! Time is flying this year!!!


Nothing real exciting going on here.
*Watching the remainder of the MLB regular season and (impatiently) waiting for post-season.
*My photo sessions seem to have dried up for the rest of the year (unless I get a last minute call - which I will happily take!).
*I've been editing some landscape and nature photos to try to sell this winter.
*I have been doing some reading - hope to get my act together and write some book reviews soon.
*I put together some scrapbook page kits to sit down and work on one of these days.
*I've been spending some quality time on Pinterest


If you are looking for me on social media, I am on Instagram and Twitter as @cubsfan3410.


I would love it if you would link a blog post to Rachel's What I'm Loving Wednesday post. She is a wonderful blogger and lots of fun!

I hope you are all well! I also hope to post more often.

October, here we come!

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!

Overall, it's been a pretty crappy week. I hate when there's a full moon - people just become insane! The ray of sunshine in my week is this:

Here's to enjoying the rest of the season and getting ready for post-season play!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Book Review - The Travelers

Publisher's synoposis:

A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Soon Will’s bad choices—and dark secrets—take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. As he’s drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about Will Rhodes was ever ordinary, that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications—and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.

It’s 3:00am. Your husband has just become a spy.

My thoughts:

Overall, this book was a mediocre read for me. I struggled with some of the details and conversations in the book. A couple of times in reading, I felt that it was repetitive. I like Will's character and his voice in the story. I wouldn't highly recommend this to others.

My rating:

3 of 5 stars

Travel Tuesday - This Bud's for You

I will start my September blog posts with a Travel Tuesday.

These photos are from July of 2009 of our tour of the Budweiser plant in St. Louis. Several buildings on the complex are original from the beginning of the company, so they are old and beautiful!

Relaxing in the Clysdale barn:

One of the nicest barns I have ever been in.

 These guys are SO big and beautiful! I had been to the MLB All Star at Busch Stadium the night before where the Budweiser wagon made a lap around the warning track - the stands were literally shaking as they ran by, they are so heavy and strong. It was amazing!

The aging barrels

If you are in St. Louis and have a couple of hours, it's worth the stop!