Autumn is for Apple Picking

This past Saturday, I went apple picking with my Mom and Cait at Honey Pot Hill Orchards.

It was a perfect autumn day - blue skies, sunny, and crisp.

We arrived right when the orchard opened to the public, so as to beat the crowds...and get our hands on the best apples, of course.



We grabbed some apple-bags to pile our pickings into and headed out into the orchard fields.





It's quite a large orchard - with around ten different types of apples to choose from. From MacIntosh to Cortland, to Macoun, Spencer, and Spartan, to Red Delicious, Mutsu, Empire, and Honeycrisp - we hopped from row to row and tree to tree - getting a mix of them.

We were most interested in the sweeter types - as we had big baking plans for our spoils.
And wanting the big, red, juicy, sweet ones - we had to do some climbing to reach those top branches.





Cait taste-tested (just to be sure we were picking the good ones, obviously).



With good remarks - we kept on with our picking...







until our bags were spilling over and as heavy as ever.

We wound our way back through the apple-trees, and had ourselves a very scenic trip back to the Honey Pot store.



As we got closer to the store, the smells of warm caramel and cinnamon swirled around us.

We took a peek in the store - which offered honeys, apple and pumpkin butters, picked apples and pears, as well as cider.

But having been too enticed by the smells of the more sinful offerings, we made our way outside to the store windows to order some caramel apples, apple cider doughnuts, and warm apple cider.

My first choice was the caramel apple.

Isn't she a beauty?

Delicious.

Mom also couldn't resist the sticky-goodness.

But Cait went for the apple cider and honey sticks - which she loved just as much as we loved ours.

A perfect, sweet ending to a fun and apple-filled autumn day.

xo Belle