dinner in the woods

like every first sunday night, we have dinner with our community folks. it's the people of our house, as well as our neighbors next door. one month joel and i are cooking and organizing and the other month the friends next door. so yesterday we could relax and just tag along... (which i really enjoyed a lot!)
they cooked a wonderful chilli and brought everything up to a near by fire place with a grand view over our town (or at least a corner of the city...).
for some of us it was a bit of a straineous hike up the hill, but most of us made it with joy and welcomed the change of scenery. a lovely late afternoon in autumn, still warm enough to not bundle up and the colors starting to paint the woods around us.

eating, talking and enjoying each other companie, singing around the camp fire and the best of all, walking home in the dark. the moon is still waxing, not yet a full round disk. i love the darkness of the forest, the paths almost not visibale (but it's one of my regular running paths, so for me it was easy to walk in the dark). and to look at the city with all it's lights, but still somewhat quiet, as it was sunday night... it's a sweet spot here, where we live. and i'm really thankful for the place, the people and all there is around me.