Monday, November 2, 2009

Photoessay #880 - Illinois countryside



On Saturday, my mom, brother and sister went for a ride to Edward Apple Orchards maybe 20 miles from Rockford. Through the autumn midwestern country side of brittle bleached gold corn and uncertain skies. Definitely fall, huge movements in the land and sky, you know that spring is far far away. Here, most leaves are falling but most everything still green.

View taken from the car heading east from Rockford near Calezonia.

The destination mostly had specialty foods along with a jolly banjo player. Known for their fresh doughnuts coated with sugar and cinnamon. Definitely hallucinegetic (sp). Pony rides in the back. I bought some pumpkin butter and some pickles which will arrive in a box I shipped. Second shot my mom, brother and sister sharing one of those BAAAAAAAAD doughnuts outside of the shop. You can see the severe landscape stretching out behind them.

They had samples and big bins of apples. Some unfamiliat varieties. Yet I wasn't too impressed, they have good apples here in Washington State!

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