This Perfectly Imperfect Life

this dogwood's just outside our place & it's not the only tree who's leaves are turning shades of orange & scarlet already thanks to the drought were having this month around these parts!

just some neat pics i took at the beach last night. (sandy hook, nj)

on this day, two years ago, early in the afternoon in our old living room and with god as our only witness, we pledged our love and faith in one another to each other and like so many couples in times before us, we hopped over a broom together, a symbol of our unity.

(hummingbird!)

last night we were watching another 9/11 documentary on a&e and the narrator stated that only 12 people from the 78th floor of wtc tower 2/the south tower made it out. i've seen this documentary numerous times but i do not recall ever hearing that statement before. a shudder washed through me and i asked my husband if he'd heard that. he said he did & with tears in his eyes, he held onto me for the rest of the documentary. i told him that i'd like to think that i would've gotten out of tower 2 before the (2nd) plane hit it, even though they were telling people in tower 2 to go back to their floors/offices and regardless of security saying that "only" tower 1 had been "affected." but, i don't honestly know. how can anyone know what they would do in such a dire situation until they are actually in it?!