Apple Picking at the Farm

We ventured out of the city to go apple picking at Barton Orchards. The drive up was stunning. Fall is here! The leaves are all changing colors and it is beautiful. 

We got lost on our way up. Google maps lead us astray again (When we were in Europe google maps gave us the worst directions. At one point the directions were turn right, turn right, take a left. No street names or anything. Beware of google maps! It is the scariest thing you might encounter this Halloween season). 
We were okay with being lost because we got to see this beautiful farm. I love the red leaves.


And our future home. Beautiful house! And grounds! There was even a lake.


We made it thanks to the locals who gave us directions. Friday was a great day to go because it was not very crowded and they do not charge admission during the week. Yay!

Cosette ran over to the fun stuff right away. She knows what is up. 


She is the cutest count dracula you will ever meet.


I guess I am Glinda the good witch of the south because I give treats not tricks.


 The orchards have a wide variety of apples. When you go they give you a list with all the apple varieties with the information about which ones are in season and which apples are best for eating, baking, and making apples sauce. That was helpful. We picked mutsu apples which are in season in October and are good for eating, baking, and making apple sauce.


The apple picking was fun. We had to walk a ways into the orchard cause the front trees were picked clean. Some of the apples were so high up that I got upon Lyndon's shoulders in order to reach them. I wish someone had been around to get a picture of that.  


Cosette went around picking up all the apples on the ground. 
She was not interested in picking the apples off the trees. 
On a side note here is a short Coco update. She has been saying daddy a lot lately and today was pointing to herself saying daddy. We are now trying to practice her "ka" sound so she can say Coco. 
We like to call her Captain Coco and this picture captures that sense of adventure she has. Our little train conductor. It was a really cool play ground. There was a boat and a castle along with the train. A child's paradise. 
Cosette tasted the apples first. She ate the whole thing so we know they are good.


Barton Orchards had beautiful produce. I wanted to buy it all. They had a lot of other good food there as well. There was all sorts of fruit butter. They even had pumpkin butter. There was apple salsa for sale as well. That sounded delightful. We did enjoyed apple spice doughnuts and sampled some fudge so our taste buds were satisfied.  

Our harvested goods. We are going to be making a lot of apple goodies this weekend! If you have any good apple recipes let us know.

We took a hayride out to their pumpkin patch! It was pretty spectacular seeing all those pumpkins. One of my favorite Halloween traditions is pumpkin carving. I cannot wait! 

Cosette tried to pick them up. She is strong but not that strong. We found a Coco sized one for her to carry around. She just threw it.

Apple picking was a roaring successs (according to Lyndon). We really enjoyed this family outing. I want to go again. The orchards have berries and peaches earlier in the year so we will be back. At least for now we can check another thing off our fall to do list. 

Happy Fall!

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