Early Autumn Variation

This was one of the last photos I took in our old apartment, while the weather was up and down between late-summer hot and early autumn cool.  I am wearing my navy twill jacket (reviewed here) and my navy broadcloth skirt (reviewed here) with a vintage pale blue striped shirt with a white collar I found at the thrift store and a new sterling silver Stuart Nye pansy brooch that I found on Ebay for only a few dollars.  It was black with tarnish when I got it, but after some polish, it is quite lovely, I think.  Pansies have been one of my favorite flowers since I was a child, for their cheerful faces, and royal colors, and because ‘pansies are for thoughts.’