Sunflower fields

Sunflower season! 🌻 One of my favorite August rituals is to take a mini weeknight road-trip over to Rock, Michigan to visit the sunflower field at Fall Farms. So stunning. They only last a few weeks… so it’s similar to tulip season, lilacs in bloom or fall colors popping off, when you hear they’ve hit peak, you run! An easy road-trip, only about an hour from Marquette, it’s well worth the trip. You can cut your own sunflowers, or just walk around and snap pictures. They have little wood platforms you can walk up to that’ll give you a better view above the sunflowers, otherwise I love to just stroll the rows and scope it out too. Always a little bittersweet though – I feel like sunflowers signify the end of summer and I’m not ready! It’s gone way too quickly this year!

Thankfully in the Upper Peninsula, it remains a bit cooler, I’m still rockin’ jeans a lot of days, but currently from where I’m typing this in Muskegon, it’s so hot. And I wouldn’t be able to get away with this outfit as easily, hahaha. I was literally melting in Grand Rapids and Muskegon yesterday running errands, trying to squeeze some shopping in. But I picked up this Henley top from Aerie last year, and love a casual button up top like this! They’re out of stock, but have similar options. But yeah, still loving my ribcage fit jeans from Levi’s. I just want to buy all the colors and to get rid of all the rest of my jeans. 😆

Otherwise, yeah, summer is too quickly coming and going. Somewhere not sure entirely where July went… and then August somehow went even faster. But it’s been lovely, just busy. I love hosting friends and family in Marquette, and had two weekends in a row of it, and now I’m downstate doing a few West Michigan summer things, but very much excited and ready to get back home and into some normal routines and try to embrace a slower summer vibe. Beach days, reading, a scenic day or overnight trip, just like… quiet, and slow. Hopefully it’ll feel slower in town too with kiddos back in school and tourists chilling out a bit too. I’m so tired right now. Plus, when I’m downstate, I try to cram everyone and everything in and it’s exhausting. Anyway, don’t need to complain about that, but it’s just my mental space right now. I’m grateful but tired. 😆 Ok ok… onward!

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