. harvest .

. has arrived .

. november 13th .

. and they're still in bloom . they even lasted through snow and quite a few nights that were below freezing .

. the last few days .

. i've still been enjoying the sunshine and the temps that haven't been too cold (i know it'll be cold soon) . elsie's had this thing with corn since she came here, the other dogs like it too, but she's obsessed .

. she's getting nippy about it . in this photo below she's giving ryan what-for because he's acting like he's going to take it away from her .

. the little lady even nipped at me . a warning nip like 'don't mess with me' . but still !

. ryan and reed were able to stay the night last night . when they are here during the day we never have time to do much fun stuff because ryan has school, anything we do we have to schedule in between school and there just isn't enough time ! so they came and stayed the night and did one of their favorite things, watched movies . we watched up, which i had been wanting to see, very good . and their favorite, alvin and the chipmunks . then this morning we had a little outdoor scavenger hunt .

. found paw prints in the dirt, the hard part was figuring out what animal made it :) .

. our finds .

. 'something prickly' was dangerous, it got us all .

. burned some leaves . love that smell .

. another ideal fall day and so glad to finish it off with newborn baby photos .

. there's a few things we do once a year at aunt sarah's .

. and carving pumpkins is one of them . although reed's ready to move onto ginger bread houses now, thankfully it's not very far away .

. this is a favorite tradition of mine, although i've only done it for what, like 3 years now .

. it's gooey and kinda gross .

. but it really doesn't bother me, i actually love picking out the seeds .

. the boys got into the gooey part too . and they loved the end result .

. jack .

. i had so much fun making jack with the boys, and since they were going to take it home i was feeling like we needed to do one for my place . so we did, or i did, ryan had to get back to his school work and reed was kinda over it by then .

. and probably my favorite part . the roasted seeds .

? have i mentioned i love fall ?

. wordless monday .

. night time harvest .

. it's been a busy week around here . i've been busy with photo shoots and editing and all that goes with that, keeping up around home and helping a little with harvest . steve's worked hard in his windows of dry ground to get the crops out and we're getting closer all the time . he tried to beat the rain wednesday night and was just a few acres shy of getting the beans in . he would have gotten them all in with time to spare had he not broke down earlier in the day, but that's the way it goes .

. finishing up one field .

. loading the head on the head cart to move to another field . i haven't driven any machinery this season (with the exception of the combine in the driveway) and my job was to move the head on the cart on the back of the truck to another field . i was a little nervous at night thinking i may take out a few mailboxes and not know it but i made it without incident (i think) .

. getting ready to start the next field .

. unloading on the trucks .

. the rain has been a welcome break .

. snow fall .

. or fall snow, however you want to say it . i wasn't really ready for the snow that came on saturday, although it left in a hurry so we're all good now . except it seemed to leave a little cold behind .

. it warms my heart .

. if i'm ever in need of a smile this'll do it for me .

. september day . from Sarah Nebel on Vimeo.

. such a magical fall morning .

. so i thought i'd share it with you . they won't last forever so i'm trying to take it all in .

. magical fall morning . from Sarah Nebel on Vimeo.

. notice .

tails wagging

birds chirping

my little tree has changed to it's fall colors

chopper eating corn

corn all over my yard

the little elsie pumpkin

. fall has definitely arrived .

. and it's very obvious outside my windows so i needed to make it obvious inside my windows . these first little things were a new concoction that was made from last years throw aways . the combination of small pumpkins (like you see on the table below) and zucchini .

. little orange chinese lantern my mother in law brought from her yard .

. and lots of little pumpkins from her too .

. can you smell my pumpkin cheesecake candle burning while looking at these photos ? ah, we've been having such beautiful fall days, especially yesterday .

. it's official, harvest is here .

. the first full day of fall was our first day of harvest .

. crunchy corn stalks . the sounds of combines, tractors and dryers running .

. cool crisp days . lunches in the fields .

. shorter conversations because they are in passing .

. unforeseen trouble .

. memories in the making .

. dust flying in the air .

. finally getting to see all that hard work pay off .