Autumn is upon us..

Its cold, getting dark earlier and hence time to reflect on the past two weeks with my loyal blog readers.

All is well if not busy - tomorrow I give my final exam for the first term, and on Thursday I start the 2nd term: who thought of this schedule???? Probably the same folks who control traffic light timing in Baltimore.

Anyways, the weekend of the 15th we drove to Syria Viginira to rendezvous with cousins John, Rebecca and Rose for some apple picking. Actually an apple picking festival at a farm. The funny part is it took us forever to find where you could pick apples at the festival because the initial part was a traditional Baltimore stret festival with overprice food, fried dough and such festivcal staples.
We had a great time though - and apple picking was a big hit! We stayed for the evening in lovely Luray, home of Luray Caverns, the caverns for people who wound never actual go splelunking (caving).
I went caving once, spent 5 hours underground in Harpers Ferry, just me, 10 others and a bunch of bats and tight spaces. Time to check that off on the "been there done that list" becasue I ain;t trying to do that again knowwhati'msayin.
Anyways, here are some photos from our weekend:



Emmet gets busy on an apple!













Micah and Rose chillin'












Micah, myself, and the tallest cow I've ever seen!
Maybe it was a Clydesdale dresed like a cow - its getting close to Halloween you know!

On the way home we drove along Skyline drive - it was a beautiful weekend and the scenery did not disappoint.

This past weekend, Roni and I got a babysitter for Saturday Night. We went out to the Charles Theater to catch Good Night and Good Luck, the new George Clooney related film about Edward Murrow, the CBS News reporter who made it his mission to take down Senator Joseph McCarthy. I give the movie a thumbs up.