Kristian Beverly

The first indie bookstore we stopped at was Completely Booked.

It’s located in Murraysvolle and is in a plaza. It was a small and adorable indie bookstore. It was packed with many genres on its shelves.

Sections were divided with an array of books.

I love to see the different decorations bookstores stage around the space.

This was a fun place to begin the bookstore tour!

I left with a copy of Kiss The Girl by Zoraida Cordova. I’d been meaning to get a copy for myself and what better place to get a copy than an indie?!

As always, performance showers and tack/doll makers, feel free to use any of my photos for documentation! (Please send me photos of any model sized setups!)

It’s been a minute since I’ve been to a horse show.

I’m lucky enough to live maybe ten minutes from Twin Brooks Horse Showing Association where various horse shows are held from spring to the beginning of fall. I’ve wanted to see a ranch horse show since learning about them, so I ventured out to watch the East Coast Ranch Riding Association show a few weeks ago. I didn’t arrive early enough to see the halter classes, but I was able to watch some of the pleasure, trail, and ranch riding classes.

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Most of the bookstores we visited on the trip were independent, or bookstores that don’t belong to a chain. There are a few chain bookstores in the US—Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, 2nd And Charles, and Half Price Books. The first three are all found within 30 minutes of my house. Pittsburgh has two Half Price Books so we stopped at both. We had to!

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In the evening after our bookstore Pittsburgh stop, we bought tickets to see the Pittsburgh Zoo Asian Lantern Festival. I was excited to see this–a few years ago Sam and I had gone to a sky lantern festival. The last time I went was in 2019–and during the day.

On the drive to the zoo, there was a beautiful rainbow.

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