Fall Harvest

Every fall we head an hour west to spend the day picking apples, pumpkins and partake in a friendly competition through this year's corn maze race. 

Some years the apples are all picked over. We were lucky this time with plenty of Empire, Ida Red, Cameo and Breaburn varieties to chose from. This is Katie's favorite!

A friendly competition has always been healthy for our family but it is getting a bit out of hand. This year it felt like we were running a 5K instead of a friendly trek through the corn maze. What happened to the "no running" rule?

It was such a beautiful day that even the bees were buzzing.

Pumpkin picking was extra hard this year with most of the pumpkins rotten or devoured by the squirrels. We did find four very large, not to bad looking ones. We are a very picky crew. One likes it tall, one likes it round, one likes it a bit more oval. I look for the unusual, not necessarily pretty, pumpkin. I believe the word being passed around this year was "ugly".

Our carved pumpkins and a recipe to follow.