Life lesson | Lessons from my daughter

I love this time of year.

Fall is beautiful, the leaves are turning all kinds of pretty red and yellow shades.

The weather is cool, sometime border line cold.

It’s perfect weather to be cooking up a feast.

It’s the perfect time to go apple picking.

My friend Lise is a photographer. She takes amazing pictures of things and places…. I am sure there is a word for that type of picture, I just don’t know. what it is. (Remember, my mother tongue is French, there are English words I still don’t know) Currently, she’s working on adding people to her repertoire so I offered up Emily as a subject :).

We were meeting at the Belliveau Orchard right after lunch today. It was my first visit there and Emily had been once before with school.

http://www.vergerbelliveauorchard.ca

We got there at 12:30

The apple picking season is short so this was a busy place today with a 22 Celsius weather.

It took us a good half hour to make it through the gate. We stood in line and watch the kids play on the hay bales.

Emily didn’t ask to go play with them. Too many kids and a whole lot of opportunities to get hurt. It’s amazing how I now see this… I guess that’s a perk of being a parent of a child with mobility challenges.

They have a corn maze there too but that didn’t attract us so off we went to pick some apple.

Emily was listening to Lise quite well.

This was our way in the orchard.

My beautiful daughter played the role of model really well for Lise.

I got to take some pictures too.

We even managed to convince Emily to lay down in the orchard. Now considering her lack of desire to even walk bare feet on grass… to have her accept to do this was quite an accomplishment.

After all that hard work, it was time to test the quality of our apples.

20lbs of yummy Cortland apples for me to make apple sauce and apple crumble.

My house will smell delicious shortly!

I love autumn! It’s my favorite season!

What’s your favorite season?

The summer is done. We are well into fall season when we consider school started 3 week ago.

Most campgrounds end their season during Labor Day weekend.

Outdoor markets do the same.

Yesterday, Jon told me the drive-in was open for one last weekend and the movies are Emily friendly.

Sometime, the first movie is ok, the second not so much. Most times, Emily wouldn’t care for either movie…

But tonight!!! For $20 entrance fee we will see Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 & Grown Ups 2.

This is going to be fun!

We started by a stop to the best Root Beer place. Dinner at A&W

Then we stopped at the Bulk Barn to fill up on drinks and snacks.

And now, we are waiting for the sun to go down.

I remember loving the drive-in as a kid and really enjoying it as a teenager!

Back when I was a teenager, we had to use those big grey speakers… now, we just need to turn the radio on a specific channel. I like that, Pascale in the car, mosquitoes and black flies out of the car!!!

Most of the Drive-in are closed now.

The season for it is so short in our part of the world.

So, we try to do this as often as possible.

Emily loves it, she has the best spot in the vehicle.

Although tonight, it looks like she might have to share!