Claire Holt: Claire kept it simple in a Zimmermann wrap dress in a rich burgundy hue that heralded in
thoughts of the fall season.
DRESS: Nordstrom (Similar Here and Here) / Boots: Dolce Vita / Handbag: Henri Bendel / Denim Jacket: Gap The word «floral» isn't usually what you would think of when you're
thinking of the Fall Season is it?
Not exact matches
Thomas, for his part,
thinks of fall as the
season of getting down to business.
Even though it doesn't really
fell like pumpkin
season until right around Halloween where I live, I
think that cookie
season is all year round... So I baked a few batches
of these Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies as a compromise!
As I was
thinking of the first recipe to share with you for the
fall season, I said to myself, self, let's do something easy.
The warm, addicting flavors really ignite
fall season — but don't
think pumpkin pie spice is only for one time
of year.
I've been craving biscotti lately and as
fall is here and apples are in
season now I
thought of making apple biscotti.
So I
think it's about time we embraced pumpkin
season because this is going to be on my breakfast menu for the rest
of Fall.
Fall is my favorite
season; the weather cools, the aroma
of damp leaves and smoke from fireplaces mixed with the lowering sun create this warm rusty aura around the
thought of it.
I've sort
of been in a
Fall slump lately and I
think it might be because my kids are away at college and there are no little ones to share the beginning
of the holiday
season.
I
think I say this every
season (hello, summer cherries), but
fall is one
of my favorite
seasons for fruit.
«It's been a disaster for Arsenal this transfer window because I do
think at the end
of last
season there was a bit
of a talk
of a revolution with talks
of three or four out and three or four in, major changes, and they
fell short.
We finally have a solid striker (even if he will take some adaptation time I
think he'll be true class) in Lacazette, we have solid center backs (once they are all healthy) much better than in recent
seasons, Giroud is our killer weapon off the bench rather than the key we are relying on as the main source
of goals, Coquelin and Elneny are now midfield
fall - back options rather than Flamini (no offense Mathieu, I appreciated your efforts, just making the obvious comparison), two high quality keepers, etc..
United aren't in the position they were last
season, looking up at the top four, but they mustn't
fall into the trap
of thinking they're even remotely close to winning titles again.
While some Arsenal fans as well as the generally not as sympathetic folk who make up the football media will call any attempt to come up with a reason for Arsenal
falling to nine points off the Premier League leaders Chelsea just looking for an excuse, I
think we have to look at the latest
season full
of injury problems and accept that this will have a negative effect on the Gunners or any side for that matter.
Although it would be a sad sight to see the BFG go, at 32 years old and signs
of his physical ability
falling already in what is a very physically demanding Premier League, I can't help but
think that this may well be Mertesacker's final
season wearing the red and white
of Arsenal.
Well written, but I
think it will
fall on deaf ears, my fear is as follows, it will take a loss in money for the manager and board to change, this will only come if we finish out
of the top 4, but knowing the board they would still give home a
season to try again, I feel very sorry for Sanchez, he is total quality and deserves better, most
of the other players look settled, turn up give70 % and get paid, no matter what level you play at you should come off the pitch
thinking I gave everything, how many
of our players could say that, they lack motivation, player for player we are as good if not better than athletico Madrid but they have a manger that gets 100 % out
of every player, Klopp is the same, but why would they leave their clubs to come here with a boar that cares about money not entertainment, Wenger was a lucky manager he inherited a top defence now his luck has run out
wenger needs to broaden his
thinking and horizon... and
think beyond sanchez, so many players can replace him, carrasaco, even baruwa (
of lipstik) whom we just saw in the emirates cup, dembele etc... i just watched liverpool trash bayern... liverpool have always has a sharp attack, now their defence seems solid... wenger is just a straight jacket, i do nt care what others are doing, i know it all coach and it will really hurt come begining
of season, unless he prunes his pride and look over the wall at what his competitors are doing that is strengthing the weakness and planning ahead... our midfield was weak and indeed still is... we glad about lacazzete, but unless our defence gives 110 all games, and we look at life beyond sanchez... we will have our
fellings hurt this
season
However, he has
fallen out
of favour with the new coach and has not played all
season, so maybe Wenger is
thinking about a loan deal until the end
of the
season.
But even though our slim title hopes this
season, as well as the hope
of a second placed finish, ultimately
fell short, I
think we have good reasons to believe that the Gunners are in the best position to wrestle the crown from Chelsea and Jose Mourinho next
season.
If we slipped up bad this
season I
think this would be the one where we
fell out
of everything.
I
think at some point last
season Alexis
fell out with Wenger, and Wenger knows this hence his pursuit
of Lemar.
I
think it more likely we will
fall out
of the top 4 this
season.
I agree with you the players need some heat to perform to theor abilities and stop wasting created opportunities to kill games and or hold onto leads and i agree they need some heat to kick em in the arse to prevent them from under performing against milan but milan isnt city or chelsea but we need to beat them to get far in competition but i do nt
think the players missing chances this year is whole heartey down to the manager and we need to finish out the year strong but with cazorla comong back and strengthening some spots in off
season and now praying we finally have jack back this squad looks dangerous next year and wenger will have a good year with arsenal next year cazorla and another player will take time off xhaka and or put more pressure on him to perform but we have had success in recent
seasons barley missing out on top four last year with highest points to ever miss out yes they need heat to perform strong rest
of year but it is not wengers time to go yet be needs another
season and if these two years are
falling off we have done better than are rivals in are tough years
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests
of late last
season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently
fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing
of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display
of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your
thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums
of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group
of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture
of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position
of power... only then can we get back to the business
of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority
of this organization... on an important side note, one
of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days
of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this
season... I
think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead
of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
I
think that oddsmakers set a great number
of 56.5 and would lean towards them
falling just below that figure by the end
of the
season.
Ramsey has had one good
season for us since his horrible injury, he needlessly gives the ball away much too often and his finishing is even worse than Giroud's... once again we have
fallen in love with the idea
of what could have been... Ramsey has only scored 2 meaningful goals in his entire Arsenal tenure: one in Turkey and the other in last year's FA Cup, which is not near enough to make him a centerpiece
of this offence... likewise simply his presence on the team sheet has led Wenger into making horrible tactical blunders because he will force Ramsey into the lineup even when it doesn't make sense... just
think of all those games when Ramsey was played out wide on the right, which forced the RB to come up into the play far more often, and deeper, because Ramsey invariably would find himself in a more central position leaving us far more vulnerable to the counterattack..
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next
season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition
of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release
of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state
of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid
of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would
think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy
of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid
of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid
of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last
seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction
of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return
of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort
of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative
of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition
of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5
seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle
of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any
of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind
of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack
of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result
of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest
of the midfield the blame
falls squarely in the hands
of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none
of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club
of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid
of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field
of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version
of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history
of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position
falls once again squarely at the feet
of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival
of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone
of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players
of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that
of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part
of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet
of those who were well aware all along
of the potential pitfalls
of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
The former star has
fallen in the pecking order with the bookmakers putting him out at 50/1 for a January move at the start
of the
season, it looks like the bookmakers
think that Rooney will be shipped off in the next window and replaced with another high earning superstar.
I'm going to get a capsule wardrobe together for the rest
of the summer
season (through the end
of August), then start
thinking about the
fall capsule.
Obviously, most people
think of basic neutrals like brown when they
think of fall colors, but you should be wearing more than just brown all
season long.
Last year, Autumn was really into gardening with me, and at the end
of the
season (so like,
fall) I found this great gardening kit in the bargain section
of Superstore and
thought it would be PERFECT for an Easter present.
A numb silence
fell on the room, broken by —
of all people — Clive James, who was writing colour pieces for The Observer during the campaign and whose quick
thinking put the
seasoned political journalists to shame.
«Now that we know such large changes occur, we
think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and
falling with
season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University
of Colorado at Boulder who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.
«Now that we know such large changes occur, we
think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and
falling with
season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University
of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.
We often
think of summertime as the
season of the outdoors, but in truth the
fall — with its moderate temperatures, gorgeous foliage and thinned - out crowds — offers a much better opportunity to reconnect with nature.
Another school
of thought, Ayurveda spells out that
fall is the
season of «Vata» Dosha.
at the beginning
of every new
season i
think oh yes, this is my favorite
season, but surely
fall is the best.
I
think fall is my favorite
season because
of all the boots!!
I bought this top last
fall before a weekend reunion with some
of my favorites from college,
thinking it would serve me well during the holiday
season.
I know we are still in the middle
of summer and it can be hard to
think about
fall weather, but this sale is worth shopping ahead
of time and stocking up on some
of next
season's hottest trends at unbelievable prices that go back up August 4th.
I
think fall is the prettiest
of all
seasons.
The
season for baking with pumpkin is almost over, so I
thought I'd share three
of my favorite pumpkin cupcake recipes that I've made this
fall!
I'm not giving up on a
thought of Summer yet being over since the weather had been amazing in Helsinki and from what I «hear», there is an extreme heat - wave streaming throughout the whole Europe... but I just can't stop
thinking about
Fall and dressing up for the most stylish
season!
Since I unpacked my
fall / winter clothes, my faux leather pants from last
season were waiting for me for a new debut, so I
thought it was the perfect occasion to wear them with a fun striped top, a bright purple as the pop
of color, and my animal print pumps that works as neutrals in these color combo.
With
fall approaching and summer ending, most
of us are starting to
think about packing away our flip flops and shorts and wondering what to wear this next
season.
But that's okay with me as I
think fall is my favourite
season of all.
I love how it turned out and I
thought the yellow would be a great nod to the warm tones
of the
fall season.
I'm sharing the first glimpse
of our home dressed up for
fall (which is quite possibly my favorite
season of them all), and I get to introduce something new to you today that I
think you're really going to love.
For this week's Tuesday Trends post, I wanted to give an overview
of some
fall fashion trends that I
think will be big this upcoming
season.