How I Spent My Sunday Afternoon

Today was sunny & in the 70's! YES!!!! Autumn, I officially forgive you for those two straight weeks in October where it never hit 50 degrees & the sun never shined (shone, whatever). Because today was awesome. Anthony and I have been wanting to go to Starved Rock for a couple months (ever since I first heard about it from SunShine--yes, I've lived in Chicago for almost ten years, and never knew about this awesome state park that's only 90 miles away until this year), and today was our day.

There were lots of people out enjoying the day--families, older couples, lots of awesomely cute dogs, and everyone seemed 100% happy to be walking out in the woods. The trails were covered with the dry autumn leaves that have fallen in the past couple weeks, and every now & then you could see another leaf float softly down to the ground. It was beautiful.