Pine trees, browns, rustic styles…I can’t ever get enough of it! That’s one thing I really miss about Minnesota – all the beautiful pine trees. Where I live in NC we have very few of them. It’s interesting, too, how different the colors of foliage are from state to state – in Minnesota they’re deeper, here they’re very bright. (when we were driving from MN to NC back in April we couldn’t get over how crazy the transition was from deep green/brown/gray to vivid green/light brown!)

{all images via pinterest. clockwise, from top left: 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6}

I’ve been thinking recently about how short life is. Sometimes it feels like I’m wasting time…in that it feels like my life hasn’t “started” yet. There are so many things I want to happen that just aren’t happening, and it gets frustrating. I don’t want life to fly by, I don’t want to miss times I could have had. On the one hand I know that though I’m young, I’m still getting older and that just won’t stop. And I don’t want to lose any time with the people I love. Yet I know that I am ultimately exactly where I need to be, and my time is not being wasted. Jesus has the perfect plan for my life, and I have to trust Him with it. Sometimes it’s just hard not to worry, though, you know?