Apple picking!

We've been enjoying the fall activities/weather, even though I know that bare trees and cold weather are in store. The weather has been beautiful, and the leaves are truly amazing. I love looking out our kitchen window at the bright yellow tree, and seeing gorgeous red and orange trees on the way to preschool and various errands.

Last week Lucy and I went apple picking with some friends. Fresh-picked apples are so delicious- night and day different from even good store-bought kinds. We made delicious apple muffins the next day, and I'm looking forward to making more apple creations.

Here's Lucy sampling one of the apples. There were lots of low ones that were easy to pick.




A beautiful tree in the late afternoon light.


This orchard has some animals, including a llama!

The bountiful harvest.

We had fun picking up pretty leaves and leaf-crunching on a recent walk.

A friend recently loaned us a bassinette for kernel. Lucy wanted to see "how it worked" so I showed her how her dolls could sleep in it. She then started singing one of our usual lullabies (Guide Me Oh Thou Great Jehovah- the tune is welsh, and my grandmother often hums it as a lullaby) while patting the doll's tummy. She even put a shirt over the doll's eyes, which is how Matt and I sleep (Lucy often requests a shirt to put over her eyes too). I caught the end of her song in the video below.