Apples, apples, and more apples

Those aren't leaves on the ground. Nope. Those are APPLES! 

The weekend brought some cooler weather so we decided to take advantage of it and headed north to the orchard. We weren't disappointed.

We wandered through the rows of trees, filling our bag with apples, tasting as we went. They had red delicious, golden delicious, staymen, ida red, and matsu. We adopted a few of each.

This was our transportation from the parking lot to the orchard. A tractor bed with old school bus seats, and a covering. Brilliant! Not comfortable by any means (shock absorbers, anyone?), but still brilliant.

It really was a pretty day and the apples were yummy. We even came away with some good pictures!

But I saved the best for last:  

See that guy behind the Turkey? Right there. Let's call him Big Grinner. Well, I have NO CLUE who he is, where he came from, or even recall him being on the bus-tractor contraption. But he has a cute grin and a great sense of humor! :-)

Thank you, Mr. Big Grinner, for being a part of our apple picking memories.