New series on TODAY

The TODAY show team gets to go inside your home every morning, but now the tables have turned.

I am knocking on the doors of our anchors and correspondents to bring viewers into their homes in a new TODAY original series, "At Home with TODAY." Check out the first post in the series - and prepare to have major kitchen envy - as Natalie Morales welcomes you to her favorite room in her New Jersey brownstone.

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Coastline beach pics

A light drizzle fell upon the city last night as I walked home from work. It was just enough to make you want to get home, put on your sweats, cook some pasta and snuggle up for the evening. Which is exactly what I did. And while I love that, I'm already missing summer a bit. We didn't make it to the beach nearly as much as we had hoped, so I will have to live vicariously through these stunning pictures by German-based photographer Bernhard Lang.

Bernhard Lang

He captured the colorful photographs high above the Adriatic coastline in Italy, showing rows and rows of seaside resorts’ beach umbrellas.

Bernhard Lang

“The message might be to show the impact of human beings on the natural environment,” Lang said about the photographs. “On the other side, the birds-eye view reveals that we are just small creatures, not as important as we think we are.”

Bernhard Lang

I would love to blow one of these images up and hang it in our apartment to get us through the colder months ahead!

Photos: Bernhard Lang

Jared & George

We have settled into a specific weekend routine this summer. I wake up at the crack of dawn to run for a few hours (marathon training). We meet up at our favorite bagel spot, run errands, then usually settle at home for a nap and maybe hit up a movie later. It's been nice...but we feel like we haven't been taking advantage of all the amazingness our city has to offer.

It was time for a change.

So yes, I still woke up earlier than any sane person should last Saturday and I still ran for miles, and I still hit up our favorite bagel spot for a raisin bagel with walnut tofutti, but then we decided to stop at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to pay George a visit.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is breathtaking to see in real life. We stared at it for 10 minutes, then tried peeling ourselves away to go to another exhibit, but I kept coming back to George. It's inspiring...and quite humbling. As we walked away, Jared and I promised one another that we would come see him again soon.

And we of course had to talk a stroll on The Met's rooftop before heading home.



That may be one of my favorite spots in the city.  It feels as if you could dance across the treetops, hopping from one to another. It's magical.

(Here are a few tips if you care to give the rooftop a visit!)

 

Baby George reacts to royal baby news

Duchess Kate is pregnant. This tweet is everything.

https://twitter.com/Charles_HRH/status/508926485491879936

Changing my name

I am in the throes of the name change process which has me feeling all sorts of things.