Today

Such a nice, crisp Fall day. Berries and seed pods everywhere. We even found some flowers.







My husband snapped this shot of me and I like it:





We walked over to this pretty spot:



And found these creepy nature beings:



Any guesses on what you think those are? My smart husband figured it out and clued me in but I would have never guessed..

Cape fun

My husband and I went to Cape Cod this weekend to go mushrooming with my parents. We woke up bright and early Saturday morning and went to a super secret mushrooming location. It looked like we had been beaten to the location by other mushroom hunters but after about 3 hours of hiking, we found a ton of mushrooms. There is something really satisfying about going for a nature hike and finding huge edible mushroom along the way. Oh, and cranberries! We even found some wild cranberries.













Anyway, as if that wasn't enough, we then headed to the Wellfleet Oyster Festival. It was so crowded but seeing my husband in oyster heaven was great. Check out this action shot:

Through the years

Photographs of my husband and I through the years pulled from my photobucket and in no particular order:




































Now it's your turn. Come on, post the embarrassing ones too.

New Hampshire

It's our favorite time of year so Nate and I decided to dedicate a full day to leaf peeping, apple picking, hiking, and hot apple cider.

We started the morning at 6:30 AM (pretty ridiculous that we set the alarm for a Saturday). We showered and hopped in the car by 7:30 and headed to our favorite breakfast place in NH and beat the rush for once. Then we drove to Waterville Valley.



We went on the best hike that we have gone on in years a little ways away from Waterville Valley and saw waterfalls like this:



Tons of mushrooms:





And just beautiful scenery:



We then drove on Sandwich Notch Road and it was slightly perilous for our little car, but we had a blast. It reminded me of that time we off-roaded in Aruba but that's a story for a different day. The purpose of taking that road was to get to the Sandwich Fair but when we got there and saw that parking was $8 and no one was taking credit cards and we had no cash, we gave up and kept going.

We usually go to Mack's in NH for apple picking and that's where we were heading this year, but then we decided to stop here instead and I am so glad that we did:



We picked different varieties of apples like this:







What a shame that all these poor apples are on the ground:



But wait, I think they pick all those up too (see photos below) and they either make apple cider out of them or use them for other purposes.





On our way out we petted some goats that appropriately had a sign above them asking that people not feed them apples:



Check out their view/property (those are cows by the way):



There were plenty of old barns like this along our adventure today and I wish I caught more:



Anyway, beautiful day. We got home about 2 hours ago and I am completely wiped. No alarm for tomorrow morning thank god, but we do need to get ready for a wedding.