Fall in New England is a season to live for. The humidity of August is replaced by warm days and crisp nights, usually accompanied by brilliant blue skies. There is a sense of anticipation as the many universities begin and students from all over the world come to the area to study. The anticipation is also a recognition that the beautiful days will not last forever, and inevitably winter will come.
Fall foliage is famous in this part of the country, but along with the foliage are other things that are equally beautiful and appealing. Pumpkins, apples, mums, cider, and more are all part of the season that is fall. This weekend we experienced all of this through the quintessential (I love that word!) activity of apple picking.
It doesn’t get better than apple picking in New England. The ingredients for success are a working farm with many varieties of apples, a ride on bails of hay in a tractor (aka hay ride), kids (it doesn’t matter the age – they’ll still be excited and fight), cider apple donuts and cold milk, cider, chili-dogs, and all the apples your stomach can handle during the process. Once you get home, you shine the apples until you can see light reflect off them, and bake apple crisp, crumble, bread, sauce, scones, pie, or whatever you want. I feel like Pioneer Woman – only a city pioneer woman and so proud.
The farm we picked is located in Amesbury, Massachusetts, just a few miles from the New Hampshire border. Called Cider Hill Farm, it boasts hundreds of apple and peach trees;a country store with home made baked goods, cider donuts and jams, jellies and syrups; a large number of chickens, and plenty of room for all.
Enjoy the trip through pictures and then go online and book your plane or bus tickets and come to experience pumpkins,picking, eating and baking apples, mums and more.
Note from Blogger: No wonder I usually stick to only one or two pictures! Putting in pictures with clever captions is far more difficult than writing!
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Marilyn R. Gardner 
I love the photos Marilyn. I agree with others that you do a great job with your camera! What a great family outing you captured. I wonder if your brother (Stan) might consider New England-izing his orchards… (or not)… xoxo
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Thank you! I’m slowly deciding to branch out with the camera. Have to ask Stan – his orchards look quite spectacular in the few pictures I’ve seen.
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Superb colours Marilyn! Lucky lucky you!
Hopefully I will be able to witness my own real autumn this year and will be able to share it online. But there won’t be any apples or pumpkins or mums in it But no autumn pictures can be as glorious as these. I have seen a lot of pumpkin pics before, but none with the added colours of mums. Makes great compositions. I think you should do more photography as you have really caught not just the place but also its spirit.
Would be a shame not to take more pictures as there is so much of your world you can share
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How fun!
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Judi – it was so fun! Every year I look forward to this so much.
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reminds me of our one new england year in connecticut — 1989…taking all these students from beijing to an orchard…so fun! we don’t have apple orchards here…should i write a blog about our great mangos & pomegranates?
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So fun Marty! I remember taking a group of international students apple picking one time. So fun – totally new. So about the blog on mangoes and pomegranates, I’ll be waiting! Would love to publish on as a blog post.
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I love that picture of Stef in the tree in her cute dress. Looks like a great day!
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I know Malori! Soooo Stef right? Wearing a dress to climb a tree…..when I think about it, I was wearing sandals with heels in the mud. Thanks for reading!
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Love it!
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Bettie – loved your pictures on FB of Mongolia and the colors changing.
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BEAUTIFUL Fall pictures! :)
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Thank you! I was shocked with the way they came out – I am NOT a photographer so was so excited.
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Very much like Autumn in Minnesota–my absolute favorite season!
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Was only in Minnesota once in the fall and that was when I was 21 – I still remember it, so so beautiful!
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