mmmmapples!

last weekend we went apple picking in poolesville, md. we have been to homestead farms a few times in the past year and always enjoy the picking. it's also still a family run farm in an area that's prized for land...prized by developers, that is.
katie needed a lesson on holding the basket properly after this was taken.

i tried to hide, but didn't do so well.

there were, of course, 756,597 kids there with their families. most of them were funny. this little girl loved feeding this kid, and shreaked with delight every time he took food from her.

also, i thought this was very "wizard of oz" like.


so, i have this 11 lb pumkin from the farm that's all clean and ready to be cut up. it's sitting on my counter. i brought some of my big knives in to sur la table to be sharpened yesterday, realized i didn't have any knives for the next week and a half, so i picked up a new one while i was there. it's so pretty, and i can't wait to use it. i've been eating pumkin seeds in the shell from trader joe's all week at work. once i cut this one up, i'll clean up the seeds and give most of the flesh to katie. kind of like we're killing our own livestock.

i want the snout!