Friday Fog

We celebrated our 6th anniversary last Thursday. Daniel took the day off and we spent a fun day together. Friday was a holiday, Unification Day, so we usually celebrate our anniversary for 2 days every year (and it's kind of fitting, too, since we got married and sealed on the October 2, and had the big reception and celebration the next day, on the 3rd). Friday we got up early (courtesy of our own, customized alarm clock, Flynn) and went on a hike in an area close by, which we hadn't explored on foot before. The day started out with heavy fog. It didn't lift until around noon. But it's fun, I love fog. When you walk while it's foggy, everything sounds slightly different, muted and more distant. It swallows sounds, sight and light. The sun tried hard but never came through completely, and only when we reached the car it was sunny with blue skies. It's great to see the ever changing, morphing light. It is a little magical, elusive, and you can never quite catch it on the camera just so. But we took many pictures anyway. Living in the country makes all the seasons so much more immediate. You see, feel and smell the changes in the seasons so much stronger. That's my favorite thing I love about living here.

Enjoy some impressions of early Fall:

We parked next to a pumkins-for-sale place. Didn't buy any but will come back when Halloween gets closer ;)

Those colors! Those hues! I'm in love! Every year, over and over again!

And we're on our way!

This is the little valley we walked in. We loved the 'misty mountains' ;)

The first golden leaves

Diamonds on a string

Fog, oh fog, you make the leaves shine brighter!

 

We loved the golden hues of the cornfield...

"All of this posing makes me very hungry!"

Like father, like son... Flynn got hungry too!

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We discovered some awesome bushes along the trail. A very happy gardener must be living close-by!

Kristin in Wonderland.

The fog is lifting!

Flynn telling Dad his dreams after waking up.

Look, a wild Bonsai!

Daniel fell into a cauldron of shrinking potion - perfect for posing next to a random wild Bonsai ;).