Fall has arrived in NJ....

Well, we went apple picking today!! And it was fabulous! After a thorough search online of "local" NY/NJ apple picking orchards last night, we found the "perfect" place to go...

After a fabulous home-cooked breakfast, we got ourselves together this morning and headed about 35 minutes north of home up to Masker Orchards in Warwick, NY. When we finally got there, it took a little while to scope things out, but we finally got the lay of the land and decided what areas we'd pick from and we had a ball!! We picked mainly Red Delicious (and delicious they were) and Empire apples. We tried to find Mitsu apples but those were either done with their season or we were entirely inept at reading the map of the orchard. Needless to say, no Mitsu apples made their way home with us. Maybe next year!

We did, however, pick a bushel of fabulous apples!! Including THE PERFECT apple...

All in all it was a fabulous day!! We roamed the orchard looking for the just the right apples and had so much fun doing it! The scenery was incredible, and the apples were YUMMY!!

So this year, we've so far gone pumpkin picking (that was last weekend - and you can see our "perfect" pumpkins in the image above) and then this weekend apple picking! We're just becoming regular farm folks!! HA!