Apple Harvest Heaven

The rain that neglected us throughout our beautiful summer has arrived to claim its rightful autumn place. Thus, with yesterday being the only clear day in nearly ten, and the only one forecast for another ten, we gathered boots and sandwiches and camera gear and headed north to the fertile Skagit Valley, a picturesque and bucolic land of red barns, organic farms and in spring, acres and acres of tulips.

Our first destination – Jones Creek Farm, to pick (but mostly photograph) their fields of over one hundred varieties of heirloom apples. Met by frisky dogs and smiling owners bearing hot apple cider, we found the farm was a portal to a time machine, whisking us back to childhood romps through abundant orchards filled with caramel colored light and the scent of windfall apples enveloping the air.