One With Nature.

These otherworldly snaps by French photographer Sophie Fontaine are a gorgeous reminder that there are only so many days left to spend outdoors before winter sets in - better make them count! Now to find a field of wheat to disappear into...

See more at Sophie Fontaine's Flickr, Tumblr, and Etsy shop ( I love that this print is called "Dreams Factory").

Wishing you all a happy weekend! I started mine early with a truly decadent day of eating: Roberta's, Diner, Pies 'n' Thighs. Any exciting plans on your end?

Bad Girls, Bathrooms, & Babirusas.

So happy to have discovered artist and writer Ann Shen's illustrated zines, including Bad Girls Throughout History, which "briefly, and in no way comprehensively, illustrates the most bad ass women who have ever existed,"

A Short Guide to Your Bathroom, which profiles "the ghosts, demons, and spirits that go bump in your bathroom,"

and That's Not My Name, an informative compilation of commonly misidentified animals. (My niece would love this.)

Shop more, here. Thanks to Miss Moss for the introduction.

Have a wonderful Thursday! (I'm off to spend the afternoon with Jennifer and Bekka - we have no solid plans, aside from eating. Sounds perfect to me.)

Survival Story.

This week on the Equals Record: remembering who I was before I learned there was such a thing as "cool."

An excerpt from the new post: "In kindergarten, I announced to my friends and family that I was 'a woman of destiny' who spoke two languages: English and 'cat.' (My teachers, at one point, had to separate me from my best friend for excluding others when speaking cat.) As my grade school education continued, my pastimes evolved - I taught myself to bake bread, filling our freezer with numberless misshapen loaves of rye. On weekends, I read the newspaper while eating radishes and raw onions. I wore mismatched socks. I wrote, illustrated, and performed a short story in which the starring character was a pair of underwear owned by an aging rock star named Steve...In short, I was a quirky child."

See the post in its entirety on the Equals Record, here. You can find past entries from my weekly column, Looking Forward (about the ups and downs of "growing up" in my twenties), here. Thank you so much for reading! 

Bottom image via This Isn't Happiness. If you know the original source, please share!

Goodnight Kisses.

My tastes have skewed more toward peculiar than precious as of late, but I couldn't resist sharing these "Kisses Goodnight" pillows by Etsy favorite Colette Bream. Well done, as always, Colette. Besos!

See more on Etsy, here. Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Sweet Thing: Toby's Estate.

Anyone who works from home will tell you how important it is to have a place like Toby's. I've parked at one of those little round tables for the better part of many an afternoon - finishing work, paging through a book, soaking in the light from its gigantic front windows (a coffee shop so bright is a rarity). 

But if we're being honest, the real draw for me is the food. Most days, I order the avocado toast (drizzled with tahini and flecked with sea salt), or the yogurt if I'm feeling especially virtuous. Every now and then, though - try as I might to resist - I succumb to this.

Baked at Roberta's, one of my favorite restaurants from my old neighborhood, this sturdy little curlicue of a sticky bun may be gone in three bites, but it packs an exquisitely buttery wallop. Words can't describe how much I look forward to having one on certain slow-moving, cloud-cast days - so I'll let those sublime, glossy drips down the side speak for themselves. 

Read more about Toby's, here. Top image via Dwell.