My mom and my little sister and I went for a fall walk in the woods today around our house in the Gorge. It was so gorgeous! (Gorge-ous?) All the leaves are just coming into the peak of their color, although they’re not quite there yet - reds, yellows, purples, oranges, and the ones that come out half red and half yellow. My mom and I came to the conclusion that it must be the sun that turns the Vine Maple leaves red, because the ones in our woods (higher up on the mountain and in the shade) are always only yellow, or even kind of a whiteish shade, whereas the ones further down the mountain, and the ones that are in the sun, are red.

OH, and not to get off the subject, but my family also carved about 15 pumpkins Sunday!!!! They were so great - we got them fresh from a neighbor’s pumpkin patch in Corbett this year, and they were some of the best we’ve ever had! They were really easy to carve, for one, and they had a TON of seeds!!! Especially the little ones - those little suckers were STUFFED with seeds! And they fried up really good too - nice and crispy and crunchy and easy to chew. The only bad thing was that the rain set in right after we carved them, and since we always set our pumpkins out on our back porch, I think the rain and the moisture kinda made them turn soft a little early, so the tops are already falling in on some of them, especially the little ones. MAN I hate that.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.