Michael & I have been using Instagram for the last year, and we couldn’t possibly love it more! It’s the perfect way to visually share bits and pieces of our everyday life, and is definitely my personal favorite social network. Our favorite things to photograph are: our black lab, Orvis, drinks, inspiring landscapes, and scenes from our travels.

We’ve decided to begin each week with an instagram-filled blog post about our adventures over the weekend, as a way to share a bit of what’s to come and also allow a little glimpse into our daily lives.

There’s a lot to share for this first installment of A Map & Menu Weekend – we started the weekend off by going strawberry picking on Friday (more on that tomorrow!) and running in our neighborhood fun run the next morning. Because we hadn’t eaten dinner out in nearly a month(!) we enjoyed two delicious meals at two local favorites. The weather was perfect all weekend long, which had us motivated to do lots of yard work. All in all, it was a fantastic summer weekend!