(oops, the "draft" feature is great if I actually remember to eventually publish the posts...this is from last weekend)
Lots of fall-y things this weekend:
Finally picked some pumpkins from my pumpkin patch. There are still some babies that aren't ready yet, but I am so proud of these little guys:
- Discovered the deliciousness that is Tofurky Jurky (not so much a fall activity, but yummy anyway)
- Ate baked acorn squash with brown sugar, maple syrup, and nutmeg.
- caramel apple cider from Starbucks!
- Went to the corn maze at Maryland Sunrise Farms. Lots of fun. I really want to create a corn maze called the "Amazing Maize Maze." Sorry for all the pictures that mostly look the same, but I thought the corn was really sculptural and beautiful:
I haven't had a chance to read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" yet, which is kind of an autumn tradition for me, but here's my favorite section (did I post this last year?):
"As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every
symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures
of jolly autumn. On all sides he beheld vast store of apples; some
hanging in oppressive opulence on the trees; some gathered into baskets
and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the
cider-press. Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its
golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the
promise of cakes and hasty pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying
beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and
giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he
passed the fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odor of the
beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind
of dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or
treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel."
