Window full of clouds, soft rain falling. Last night a line of storms moved in, with periods of downpour and dramatic lightning. Today I think will be quieter, but overcast and wet.
I'm going out to breakfast this morning, but otherwise it's a normal day, with essay-writing. I need to return to Emily Dickinson, as well as working on getting ahead in my Substack writing, to be in the clear before we leave for Norway. I have made some headway in a fiction project and in some poem revisions, bringing things I hope a little more into focus.
Right now: drinking my first couple of cups of coffee, waking up, hearing the birds talk to each other. And consulting the list I knocked together yesterday, of outfit ideas for this week, to save myself some decision fatigue.
Just saw my first hummingbird of 2024, buzzing the dogwood and taking time to look at me through the window before zipping away.
Wearing:
*Secondhand Not Perfect Linen Smock dress (S/M) in Dark Gray Blue, I think, bought December 2023
*Thrifted Crocs sandals via the Texasgirl
This is the base outfit, this dress I love. It's a real win, in my view, that every day I can put on a dress and not go meh. My own outfit combinations might make me go meh sometimes, but not any of my actual dresses, in and of themselves.
I might love this dress even more if the waist were set an inch or two higher, but I don't think about this so much that it would be worth a trip to the seamstress. As it is, I love it quite enough, with its loose, swingy silhouette.
I think very open sandals work best as footwear for a dress like this. In the winter, I like rounded-toe boots like my Xero Taris. AND I've liked my red Xero Cassies with this dress as well. But somehow I really think that very bare sandals like these balance out the shape the best. I also like the contrast between the bronze color of the sandals and my lowest hem. That feels kind of on point.
I love this dress just as it comes --- I've been waiting for the weather to warm up enough for me just to breeze around in sleeveless linen dresses. BUT I'm going out to breakfast in what will probably be a massively over-air-conditioned restaurant (my least favorite things about summer: flies and air conditioning), so I need another layer.
I didn't think I'd wear it out, because it's really too light for a massively over-air-conditioned restaurant, but I wanted to try my Trades of Hope kimono with this dress.
I wasn't sure the combination would work, but I think it does. I like it a lot, actually. BUT I need something warmer for the Arctic zone of summer air conditioning in the South. So . . .
What with one thing and another, it's been a long time since I last wore this pink merino cardigan. I also really like pink with this gray-blue dress, and the cardigan's delicate, close-fitting shape with the dress's looser line. Pink wool cardigan it is! An all-secondhand outfit today . . .
Time to let the dog out before I hit the road.