
It’s started raining now, and I don’t know when it’ll stop. But for a while we were in the full throes of a gorgeous Autumn. I told Justin I was nostalgic for apple orchards and pumpkin patches. So, to celebrate my birthday weekend, we went to Jones Creek Farms, way out the North Cascades Highway.

Right out of the car, they served us fresh-pressed hot cider. 
Then, one of the owners walked us through the orchards to find the kind of apples we wanted – just one of over 200 varieties they grow.

They even had a "haunted greenhouse" (purely for the kids - it was really lame) and some photogenic scarecrows:
To cap off the afternoon, we took a tractor ride around the orchard with the cutest, sleepiest puppy...
and to the pumpkin patch, where we picked up some gourds to carve into Barak-o-Lanterns for Halloween:
