Rainy June: Part 1

We've had a rather astonishing amount of rain this spring.  It often (though not always) seems to be timed over the weekend, too.  But this doesn't mean we haven't had variety in our weather -- sometimes we get rain, sometimes we get thunderstorms.  All the time we get muggy weather.

Updating this previously-written post to add: In fact, we've had so much rain that the state has experienced a lot of flooding and an emergency-thingy has been declared.  The river in Coldville, the city I work in, is currently 6" --- hah, edited to correct this to 6 feet --- above flood level.  Much of the island in Snow City where the president is giving a speech tomorrow is underwater, judging by the photos a co-worker took earlier this week.  A couple evenings ago, Robert and I walked down to the river near our apartment, and then along the pedestrian trail to the falls on the river.  It was an impressive sight (sorry, no photos - I purposely left my camera/phone behind so I would focus on the experience and not trying to get good photos).  The river was running fast and churning, there was a lot of quite large debris (e.g., big tree limbs with birds sitting on them, happy to float down the river at speed).  And there were a lot of people out and about, on foot, on bikes, playing with remote controlled ufo-looking flying machines with cameras installed on them (very, very cool), walking dogs...walking cats!  Yes, we saw a woman with a cat on a leash and a man with a cat on a leash inside a little red wagon.  (It looked like an older cat that perhaps gets too tired for the whole walk and gets to ride part of the way home.)  And perhaps the very best part: about 9 p.m., we were passing through the little playground a couple blocks from our apartment, and eagle-eyed Robert spotted a (wild) bunny heading toward a plant "island" in the playground!  Unlike an eagle, Robert did not swoop down to attack said rabbit.  He just pointed the bun out to me and we watched that rabbit for several minutes while Robert verbalized the rabbit's thoughts -- "Oh my god, the humans see me!  What?  This never happens!"  He tried freezing in place but that didn't work -- "The humans are still watching me!"  After a while, he hopped among some plants and disappeared from our view.  "Whew, finally got away from those observant humans."  I spent the rest of the night in a bunny-bliss fog of wonder and delight.

Let's play a bit of catch-up with June outfit posts.

Thrifted Rafaella -- Monday, 6/9/14

I had an offsite meeting (to which I rode with someone else, thankfully, because I would never have figured out the confusing parking situation and which unmarked building the meeting was in) so I dressed in the most standard business casual outfit there is -- black pants, black cardigan, top with black in it.  Oh, and shoes that could handle wet conditions because it was raining.  (Yep, I'm definitely getting my money's worth out of my beige trenchcoat this spring.)

*Black and white top (thrifted, Rafaella)
Black 5-pocket pants (thrifted, Rafaella)
Black 'travel' cardigan (thrifted)
Black flats by LifeStrides
Black sparkly necklace from Kohls

Major Polka Dots -- Tuesday, 6/10/14

I've mentioned before that pencil skirts are usually not my friend, but this one from Target continues to work for me.  It feels strange to wear a shirt without a jacket or cardigan over it, but it is definitely warm enough in my office to go without a topper now.  It is a testament to my paleness that I can use a pair of shoes in a color inbetween light grey and beige and it functions pretty well as a "nude" shoe.

Blue knot-front shirt from TravelSmith
Navy polka dot skirt from Target
*Light grey wedge flats by BCBGGeneration
Double-strand pearl necklace from Macy's

Golden Bookending -- Wednesday, 6/11/14

Since falling in love with the BP Moveover flats from Nordstrom, I've bought them in several colors.  I was excited to try them in gold to do some hair-shoe bookending, and that this thrifted silk skirt has a bit of gold in the pattern made it a no-brainer option.  It actually took me a while to figure out a top to wear with the skirt -- I have plenty of pink and maroon, and a few cream, options, but finding something that wasn't too long for the somewhat full skirt was more challenging than I thought.  I'm not completely sold on the sweater I settled on (it has a somewhat boxy fit), but it was okay (and I wore it with the cardigan much of the day) -- and hey, it has a gold metallic embellishment at the front, so it continues the whole golden theme.

*Maroon/cream skirt (thrifted)
*Cream short-sleeved sweater (thrifted)
Maroon cardigan (old--perhaps the oldest thing I have in my closet)
*Gold BP Moveover flats from Nordstrom