Apple Picking

Our last Sunday day trip was to go to Shelburne Farm in Stow, the western side of Massachusetts for some apple picking. It was already the last week of the apple picking season and the day was chilly at 6 deg C. Therefore we thought that the farm would not be crowded. To our surprise, when we pulled up at the farm after a scenic 40 minutes drive, the whole carpark was full with cars. Fortunately, this farm as recommended by my SG friend, YM has a big compound and therefore, we did not feel the crowd while picking apples despite that we had to queue to pay for apple picking.

This is our second apple picking in our US stay here but it is the first time that we take the hayride / wagon ride as called by some other farms. The hayride was totally awesome for our little one. Ry was totally mesmerized by the ride as he stood in the front and holding on to the rails tightly taking in the passing fall foilage around the compound.

Ry was the only child who got the privilege to stand in front for the hayride.

After the hayride, we proceeded to some apple picking. As expected, most of the apples had fallen onto the ground or were already picked since it was late into the season. Those remained were high on the apple trees which we could not pick easily. Fortunately, there were ladders so this was the time for dear hubby, K to perform his duties as the man of the house and picked some nice, juicy apples for the family while Ry and I were in charge of sampling them.

Man of the house performing his duty.

Like father, like son. K says this pic of Ry's stance reminded him of the gangster stride in Chow Yun Fatt's gangster movie :>

Our turn to pose in front of the apple trees.

Of the five or six varieties of apples, we particulary like the Spencer species for its crunchiness and juicyness, so we picked mainly that. Since I also like the Cortland species for its special fragrance and aroma, we picked some of that as well. To add to the colour of the bag of red apples, we had some golden apples that look a bit like peaches. In the end, I think we had a bag of twenty -five to thirty apples. I think I will be going to do some baking using apples this week since on the same day, I bought a hand mixer, muffin cups and a big bowl at K-mart, promising K that baking would be one my activities that I'm going to engage in as a SAHM.

Daddy showing Ry how to pick an apple.

Ry imitating his daddy but has no teeth to bite through the apple yet.

Ry also loves the big pumpkins that he saw in the farm. He kept trying to carry those big pumpkins and refused to leave the pumpkin patch. In the end, we bought him one small pumpkin to carry home since Halloween is round the corner!