Hiking for Foliage

We went hunting for foliage the first weekend in October up in Northern NH. My goal was to be more organized in my hunt this year, so I researched some good back roads and had a good idea of what I wanted to see:
1.Covered Bridge-don't laugh! I am allowed to do tourist-y things!
2.Mountain views-I wanted to see mountain ranges from the tops of mountains...ambitious, I know.
3.Waterfall-I just like them.

Anyhow, so I found the perfect spots to find all of these things and the weather/foliage reports told us that the area was peaking, so we headed out. Turns out that I would say that the area was just shy of peak, but beautiful nonetheless.

So, I'll take you on tour with us...
Covered Bridge? Check. This one is like 300'+ long. We drove across it. So, after this, we continued onto this trail that I had researched and it was quote: "an easy 1.2 hike with some slight inclines." Ha! Well, 1.2 was to the first of the ledges. Round trip ended up being around 3 miles, and the hike was not easy...the stroll required using all four limbs, at times, and frequent maneuvers around boulders with constant attention to tree root obstacles. Regardless, we pressed on and eventually made it up to the ledges.
Now again, you can enlarge the pictures for some detail, but pictures don't do justice to the beauty. Here are some more pictures of the views:
I believe that is the Swift River.
Being silly.
Being silly again.
I like this picture. That whole side of the mountain was red.
And finally, my favorite....
These, of course, were all from different ledges...different views.
Hey little guy. Or girl.

Well, after we made it back down to the car, we were too hungry to address goal three of a waterfall. So, this had to suffice:Oh, Jeremy humor coming out. Jeremy and I were actually talking about how my sense of humor has changed since marriage. Guess I've been Jeremy-fied. But really, we were too tired for the "short" hike to the waterfall that I had planned for us to see. And, who knows...the waterfall that was 1/3 mile hike off the road may have been 3 more miles off road. These were the only other waterfall type sights we saw.And then, hungry and thristy, we headed to a heavenly site:
We've gone from eating at the one in Waco once or twice a month to not have had this since before our move...almost a year and a half. Nearest one is this one in NH. After eating all the Southern goodness we could hold, we rolled into the car and home.

Behind on posts...apple picking

So the past month or so has turned out to be an overwhelmingly busy month in the Reddin household. We are having a difficult time adjusting to my crazy schedule. So, keep that in your prayers. We are adjusting accordingly...but slowly. I'm having to teach Jeremy a couple things that he can start cooking on his own. This week meatloaf. I'm sure he'll learn swiftly.

With the busy-ness, we are behind on posting. Apple picking occurred 3 weeks ago already! Unfortunately, I went alone this year with other people from our church....Jeremy was having fun though...he was canoeing in NH/ME. Here are a couple pictures from the day.

Shame on me...Sarah caught me breaking the rules and climbing trees for the good apples.
The group in the pretty apple orchard. Kelly's eating an apple. That's ok. Think I ate about 5 in the orchard that day. Nothing quite like eating an apple right off the tree. Took a picture for Mr. Spivey of a Honeycrisp apple on the tree. Not quite sure where it went...sorry. :o) Tasted good though.

In the middle of the Red Sox run for the Pennant....ALCS 1-1...we shall see!

Next post....hiking in NH to see some pretty views of the New England foliage!