The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I may sing Andy Williams the entire month of December, but October is my favorite month of the year. The weather is perfect and the trees start to turn. Since it has been a rainy week in Georgia, I thought I would share some pictures I took for a photo contest last October at the Decatur Cemetery. I think old cemeteries are really beautiful and the Decatur Cemetery is a great place for a walk on a fall afternoon.

Coming up this weekend: The Decatur Beer Fest and zip lining at Historic Banning Mills.

Ellijay Apple Picking

Ole Miss is off this week so I convinced my husband to head up to Ellijay to pick some apples. I found out only recently that Georgia had apple orchards. I guess I thought the entire state grew peaches and that's is. It was a beautiful day in Ellijay, but sadly the leaves haven't really started to turn yet. There were some really beautiful sections of color down "Apple Alley" but mostly it still looked and felt like summer. 

It took us a little while to figure out that you had to go under the trees to see all the apples. We ended up coming home with 24 apples of Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, and Arkansas Black apples. We also sampled apple cider, fried apple pies, and peach cider slushies. 

We decided to be silly and stand in line with all the kids to shoot the apple cannon.

 My husband loves apples so much, he requested I put a link to the Despicable Me banana short movie on the blog. Papple!

 I was in awe of the turkeys on the farm. I have never been so close to a turkey that was all puffed up like this. They were beautiful, but they looked a little mean so I tried not to get too close.

On the way home, my husband took me to this really amazing Christmas shop in Cumming, Georgia. I know it is only October but I'm not ashamed to pick up a few things and put them away for two months. He could've been complaining about how he was missing the LSU-Florida game but he didn't. This is a just a reminder I have the best husband ever.

Outfit of the day

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I wear jeans almost every day. Fortunately my job allows that. However, as a Southern lady, I never get out looking like I'm bumming around the house. I love a good pair of dark jeans (Michael Kors, my favorite at the moment). I have bootcut, wide leg, straight leg you name it. I own one pair of good black pants, tons of dresses and not a single pair of Khakis. I love shoes and accessories. That's my style. What's yours?