Pumpkins and haybale all from this little pumpkin trip.
Monday, October 20, 2025
🧡 There's No Place Like Home 🧡
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Capturing Autumn
Saturday was just so gorgeous - sunny, chilly, and peak leaf color where we live - so we just had to get out, drive those curvy country roads past farm stands filled with pumpkins, and just be in that goodness!
We've taken leaf drives every year. Here are just a few I linked:
This one stands out the most to me because I had us all matching and wanted to get some family pictures that year. My girls were just so adorable then! (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
This is the same town we visited in 2016... Riverton
Oh I was such a good photographer back then... it actually really inspires me to get out there and work my camera more!
More fall goodness:
There have actually been so many other leaf fall drives since then.
This year it was just Scott and I. Abigail is a freshman away at college and Anna was busy with grad school work and decided to stay home.
Just the drive is music to my ears.
But lovely little main street towns are charming too and especially wonderful to visit in the fall.
In some of those links (above) you can see us at the Riverton General Store. It's a great place to visit!
Scott and I bought a cranberry walnut sourdough muffin to split at this adorable bakery "Orchard Hill"
We walked through Peoples State Forest as we have many times before sharing our treat.
And then I filled a basket of pine cones. I plan on spraying the tips gold for the Christmas season. I think they will look lovely in a basket or a bowl.
And then we drove home - simple, lovely, perfect afternoon 🧡
Monday, October 13, 2025
Mid October Weekending
My favorite from the weekend:
Preparing
This was a special weekend because Abigail came home from college for the first time. It's her 'fall break' and although it's really just a long weekend, I'll take it!
At first it's disbelief that she's really home!
Then I just stare at her (I remember this when Anna came home from college) because she's actually in front of me and it just still surprises me and I feel giddy with delight.
I already had banana bread sliced and in the freezer and also apple bread, but one can not have enough so I also baked pumpkin muffins with cinnamon sugar topping. I always like to have homemade baked goods ready to be a snack with tea or a side in the morning with scrambled eggs or even alongside soup at lunch. I just love to baked {especially in the fall} and I love the feeling of it all tucked away and coziness ready to go!
Homecoming
She came home on Friday night and filled up our kitchen with love {and lots of dirty college laundry - but happy to do it!} We just had to take pictures.
Celebrating
Our annual It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown snack dinner was Friday night. Here is a little peek at the goodness all set up before we ate.
It's something we all look forward to all year long. We always wait until the college break weekend and it really kicks off 'cozy season' for us.
Pumpkin~ing
Our trip to the most sincere pumpkin patch in all of New England. I posted it back here.
There was a lot of college laundry, packing warmer clothes for her to bring back, some correcting, Mass, cooking and eating, and just being together. I've packed my school bag, my clothes are ironed and ready for the week, lunches are made, it's shower and pjs time and then a new week begins! This week I'm taking along my camera so I can capture more of the fall beauty where I live.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
🧡 Our Annual Trip to the Pumpkin Patch 🧡
The drive is oh so pretty with the leaves just beginning to change. I've always loved this little green with a church {oh that red door} and that Victorian home there.
At first we all thought it was so strange to have our oldest in college and coming home for the weekend. It really is such a surreal feeling. But we always made it a point to visit the pumpkin patch.
Now here we are years later and out baby is in college coming home for fall break to visit the pumpkin patch.
The pumpkin patch fixes everything. It started out in our home as a not so great day. But we decided we all wanted to go anyway and boy are we glad we did! By the time we boarded the hay ride/tractor down and through the woods to the pumpkin patch we were all happy and grateful for our time together and for this tradition.
The Bryton Farm is delightful and not at all insta or website worthy. It's just real and that's why I love it - not commercial at all!
I walk around taking pictures and the girls and Scott find the pumpkins.
I ended up buying one of those adorable hay bales and some unusual pumpkins for our front steps.
Now that farmer is just about as wonderful as they come and go you know what is even cuter? The farmer's wife owns, operates, bakes for her own little shop in town. It's as adorable as you can imagine with all of the fresh veggies from their farm up the street and around the bend. She bakes pies, breaks, and treats. She cans relish, jellies, and jams. I didn't take a lot of pictures this year but if you click on the years past you can take a peek into the farm store even more.
There's a new store in town that we just discovered and unfortunately I don't have a picture. I kinda wish I took my camera inside. The owner of the shop was lovely and I have to tell you that the decor she sold was so refreshing. It was so not Home Goods that I've grown out of. It was kind of primitive country decor that I haven't seen in so so long. It was cozy, happy and charming. I loved it. I can't wait to go back and poke around in the Christmas season to see what she has!
Overall, this pumpkin patch afternoon reminded me that traditions are what fill our hearts. Traditions are the reason why it feels lovely to come home. They give us something to look forward to, and we remember the simple things in life are really the best things: time together and love.
Thank you pumpkin patch for reminding me of that.
Here is a peek back at years past.
2022
2018
I think that's just enough "going back"
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