Around The House And On The Farm

With the First Full Day of Fall I decided to finish off some of my Fall decorations... a beloved collection of black Steiff Halloween cats....

more Halloween..old candles, a lantern, some paper mache....

i love these old owl candles.....

some more owls....

more candles and paper mache....

vintage candles...always a favorite...fun to cruise ebay for....

i love this guy....

here the 2 pumpkin people are from jen murphy of jen murphy bears...and the scarecrow pitcher is from my friend julie of julie whitmore pottery....

julie whitmore pottery....

a pitcher from julie on a stack of ironstone plates and tiny apples....

some old Halloween chocolate molds....

made a few caramel apples from Gopher Glen. when we got to Gopher Glen the chalkboard said they had an apple called SWEET AUTUMN.....what? is that for real? is there REALLY an apple named SWEET AUTUMN...that sounds too good to be true. the lady said it was true..a new variety for this year...well, let me get a bag...and wait just a minute...does that also say LIMBERTWIG? my FAVORITE apple of all. YES...we have LIMBERTWIG today. I asked her aren't they usually ready around Halloween...she said they are early this year..well, give me another bag....Limbertwig are THE BEST for making caramel apples cause the apple is very tart...

so we gathered some apple twigs in the orchard and came home to make caramel sauce.....

what an early Fall treat we have for tonight....

after Gopher Glen we made our way out to The Avila Barn...baskets of apples are everywhere now....

pumpkins and gourds have arrived.....

what a sight....

the farmer was just unloading the pumpkins.....

pumpkins and hay....

the view from the back of the barn looking towards the Pacific ocean....the ocean is only about 3 minutes away....the sycamores line the creek leading to the sea...they are just starting to turn color.....the field is a pumpkin field...they give tractor rides on the weekends to go and pick out your pumpkin.....

there he is...he is at The Barn every year..isn't he just adorable...

i don't know his best side..the back or the front...i think the back.

another fun day picking out all of Fall's bounty....