It's time for a few pictures for those who like them... mostly "mussche" pictures, according to a local authority.  Apparently, mussche picture are mostly of flowers and trees and skies and leaves, not of people.... maybe we had better change our tune eh?  Or win a big photography prize with a flower picture and then all the teasing will have to stop!

 The "magic" hour (though Timothy assures me there's no such thing as magic!) for lighting between 5 and 6:15ish with a sunny, cloudy evening...lovely!

 my ricinnis got kinda tall - i love it, how it grows from a little bean to this in one year!

 

 

 A really HUGE cauliflower - biggest i've seen - used to make cauliflower soup!!!  Yum!

 Nope, they're not fixing the tap like dutiful son-in-laws, but rather searching for alcohol to serve the crowd - all the mussche alcohol resides under the sink!

 On Thanksgiving day, we headed out for a hike in the woods with a huge crew, Rach, Mike and their boys, Mom and Dad, Laurie, Niki, Miriam and Rebekah, Timothy and myself... fun times!

 It might have involved some expert puddle jumping...

 The fall colours were amazing!  Seemingly at their peak!

 The sky was blue, the leaves were red...

 And of course, vintage Danielle... a sunshine picture...can't do without one of those!

 The lovely ladies who accompanied our crazy family - poor girls, we told them it was "dry" back in the field...it's okay, just wear your runners...probably should have confirmed that before we told them...oops... sorry ladies!

 More proof that it was muddy...we had to hand the little guys over the mud

 one of my favorite shots from the hike - great angle Mom!

 Hiking with my sweetie... it was so relaxing to walk in the woods with the memories of past walks taken there - it's always felt like "our woods" even though we haven't the slightest claim on it despite having hauled many bunches of leaves, flowers, branches, rocks and rusty metal out of there!

 I LOVE this shot of my parents - they are both laughing - Dad probably due to the fact that we told him the word "poop" - gets him everytime!  We love you both so much!!!

The girls thought it would be fun to be goofing off behind us... and apparently Timothy thought it was fun to goof off too...i think i'm the only one trying to be posing - hmmm...doesn't bode well for the wedding day???