Fall in New England

This past weekend was peak foliage time around here so Jake & I decided to take a ride out to western Mass and up into lower Vermont. Before we left I needed to mail a package to Amanda with some fall goodies since she is most homesick this time of year. I needed one more thing to add to my care package...a small pumpkin.

We stopped at this pretty location near my house....but alas no mini pumpkins here. Aren't the colors in this photo gorgeous though? In Vermont I thought I would get so many great photos but this one right near home ended up being the best one of the day.

Next stop in the search for a pumpkin for Amanda was in Sterling at this farm...

Lots of pumpkins here to choose from. And we did find the perfect little one to add to our care package. So we were off to the post office & then on our way to Vermont.

Every town we passed through had a pretty little church. This one was in Jacksonville Vermont. We stopped at a winery here that was having a wine tasting. I don't like wine at all but it was a festive little gathering & they were serving complimentary cheese fondue, mulled cider & sliced apples with caramel sauce. Yum. A nice break from driving and a snack to hold us over till lunch time.

Jake made a friend there too...

We headed a little further north on Route 100 (voted one of the most scenic roads in America) We were trying to get to a little restaurant in Wilmington that a girl at the winery referred us to. Apparently we weren't the only ones out enjoying the colors of fall. We got stuck in this traffic for a while. At 2 miles per hour you can imagine it took us a while to get through it. Ugh !!!

Finally we arrived at the cafe and at 2 pm it was still packed so we had to wait a bit for seats. Jake passed the time amusing himself by taking goofy self portraits : )

After lunch we headed toward home and after a bit of a climb in the car the view opened up to the gorgeous scene.

and a bit further down the road we saw these on the hillside. Pretty cool to see them all spinning in the wind (10 total) My town is actually in the process of putting these in on the side of the mountain to generate wind energy here as well.

After getting back into Massachusetts in the Berkshires we came across these people kayaking in what I'm sure must be very cold water. It was only about 50 degrees out...brrrr. We watched them paddle upstream for a while practicing in the white water areas just ahead of them. Fun to watch but I wouldn't want to be them. I hate being cold.

It was a long day of driving on pretty country roads like this one...

and this one...

I was so tired when we got home...but it was a nice day spent with my favorite boy.