Apple-Picking Expedition

Saturday was a beautiful fall day, cool and crisp and sunny, so we took the boys to pick some apples at Appleberry Farm. It was a little late in the season for apple picking so we struggled a bit to find edible apples, but it was such a nice day to be outdoors. And the apples we did find have been excellent. Darby picked up one runty, deformed-looking apple from the ground, and it didn't have any bruises or holes, so I let him try it. We all ended up sampling that apple, and it was just about the most glorious specimen of an apple any of us had ever tasted. Hopefully the rest of our finds will live up to that first apple. We also quite enjoyed our lunch of cider brats with apple-onion relish, apple donuts, and apple cider.

Look closely at those leaves. There's a Casey in there somewhere.

Since most of the easy-to-reach apples were gone, Chris hoisted Casey and Darby up in the air to try to get at some higher branches. They didn't have much luck, though. Height-wise, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree in this family. (Ooo, that was bad, but I couldn't help it.)

This was when I made Darby carry the bags of apples. Kid has to start pulling his own weight sometime!

Casey posed himself with these pumpkins, put on his fakest photo smile, and asked me to take his picture.

We weren't ready to pick out pumpkins this weekend, but the boys couldn't help but browse.

On our way out we found a great weeping willow tree to climb around in.