Indian Summer

Today my friends and I headed to the gorge! It has been so nice out that we wanted to get out and enjoy it!!

My Mom told us, usually this time of year we are usually bundled up in long sleeve tops and pants, but not today!! 

It was so beautiful out and I wanted to share this beautiful day with my neighbors and friends, Ruthie and Alex!! I was so glad they came with me to the gorge!!

Ruthie had told me this was her first time to the gorge, I was so excited to share all the beauty of the gorge with her!!

Alex also told me that it was her first time here!! I was surprised that they have never been here before, especially because it was so close to our neighborhood!!

We traveled down stream and we loved seeing all the beautiful trees changing colors! We all love the Fall time and our Indian Summer that we are having, but we know the warm weather won't last very long!!

It was such a great day to spend with my friends, Ruthie and Alex! I am looking forward to visiting the gorge again with them!! Until next time!!

Purgatory Chasm State Reservation

It's that time once again! My next adventure lead me, Mom, Gram and my cousin Jenna to Purgatory Chasm in Sutton, RI.

The Chasm is a place for hikers and trail walkers!! It came known around 1919! Some believe the Chasm was formed by the Earth shifting, some by an earthquake, but the 70 foot high granite walls, are still a mystery even to this day!

So lace up your hiking boots, grab your backpack and don't forget your water and come along with me!! The Chasm is a great place, but be aware one slip or fall and you could be very hurt, some have even lost their lives.

We came upon our first little cave, we climbed though, but realized it didn't go very far so we turned around and continued on our way, there was much to see!

Jenna and I climbed up a boulder a bit for a short rest and to take some pictures of course!!

I crawled into one of the many caves at the Chasm, I had a lot of room to move around, but my Mom didn't have much at all!!

Lets keep going! We traveled farther and farther down the Chasm! The weather was so beautiful, but hiking does use a lot of muscles!! 

Our next stop was Lover's Leap! We were not equipped for this kind of rock climbing, so we just admired the view and on our way we went!

Looking up, we saw more of Lover's Leap! I think we will stick to the rocks lower to the ground!

As we kept going, I was reminded of Harry Potter! The roots of this tree were so beautiful in every way!

It's a long way down, but we can do it!! Come on let's keep going and see what else we can see!

Jenna enjoyed exploring the caves. She told me that it was so much cooler in the cave then it was in the sunshine!! 

Now which way do we go??

Hiking makes you hungry, so we found a nice spot and had our lunch! I had a PB&J sandwich, some cookies and of course my water!!  

Time to pack up and move on, but not before seeing how high up we were!! Man we are high!!

Devil's Corn Crib, let's go check it out!!

Devil's Corn Crib started out small and then widened up!! It was great fun walking the Crib!

We made a quick stop inside the main building and they had some pretty cool exhibits! We got to see how many different rocks were inside the Chasm!!

The next exhibit had all different bird's nests! The eggs in the nests where eggs that were abandoned and never hatched!!

We called this rock the slidy rock!! It was so steep, we didn't dare to climb it!!

 

I found this very cool, well not that the guy died, but the World War II part, as that is my historical time era! 

 Before we heading home, we found two abandoned buildings! This one was the Old Spring House of 1926! It made me wonder what this little house was used for!!

Here is inside of the Old Spring House! The windows are completely open and there was no door. As we listened closely we could hear water running under that square block on the floor! Maybe they used it to get their water from the spring!

Here is the second building! There was nothing marking it like the Spring House, so we don't know was it was used for and we were too scared to look inside! The building was locked so there was no going in!! What would have been here in this building in the middle of the woods? Some say it was once the restrooms, some say it was maybe a bunkhouse, some say it was a prison and others think vampires lived here, but there is no way of knowing! Maybe we will ask a park ranger next time!

It has come time to go home and leave this beautiful natural made place! There is so much mystery here of how everything came to be! We all had a wonderful day, but two and a half hours of hiking, we are all tired!! I hope you enjoyed another adventure!! I wonder where we will end up next time!!!

First day of fall apple picking!

Hello friends! Can you believe today is the first day of Fall?! I know I can't! I think Fall is my favorite season, apart from Summer! I love everything about Fall, warmer clothes, hot coco, leaves changing, all the pies, especially apple picking, which is what me and Mom and Gram did today!!

As we arrived at our local farm, we got our bag for picking and jumped on the hayride to take us to the fields!

The ride to the field was really bumpy, but so much fun! As we traveled I got to see lots and lots of corn. They looked so yummy and good and Gram promised we could get some on the way back!

We finally arrived at the field and we didn't know where to begin! There are so many kinds of apples! There are McIntosh and Golden Delicious, and Courtlands and a few we had never even heard of before!!

Apple picking is a lot of fun and our bag was beginning to fill up fast, but we still had quite a bit of apples that we could still pick! The McIntosh ones are my favorite!! I could already taste the deliciousness of Gram's Swedish Apple Pie!!

I loved climbing the trees a bit to get some more apples!! There was so many to pick from!!

1, 2, 3, 4 gosh so many apples to be picked, but we will save these for other people!!

I claimed this one to be mine!! Just a little farther...

The orchard just keeps on going on and on and on!! To think of how many apples there are makes my head spin!!

Before we headed back to the spot to catch the hayride back, we stopped at one of the three corn fields! It looks like all the corn from this field is long gone!!

I had asked Mom if we could pick pumpkins today too, but she says next time we can! I love how orange they are, Fall is officially here!!

With our apples all picked, it was time to get back on the hayride and head home! Seeing all the apple and corn on the way back was lots of fun!! But boy was it a bumpy ride!!

It was time to head home! I had such a wonderful day with Mom and Gram!! We got lots of apples to eat!! It's a good thing I love apples!! Before we headed home we stopped inside the main building to pick up our corn!!

While Gram picked out some corn, we spotted this big pumpkin! It was bigger than me!! I had lots of fun!! Until the next adventure!!

Nature walk!

Today, Mom was out of work early and it was so beautiful out, so we wanted to spend some time outside and what better way to do that is to take a walk!!

Mom told me that we had a bunch of walking trails in the back of our house so we wanted to walk those instead of just going around the neighborhood!! There are lots of trails so Mom told me it's always best to go with someone else then walking alone, plus it's always so much more fun when others go with you!!

After walking for awhile we stopped to rest for a bit and just enjoy the sunshine! The trails are really rocky so we had to be very careful not to trip and fall and of course not to get lost!!

As we continued on our way, we came across a feather! Living in the country we see lots and lots of birds, especially in the spring time! I think this is a crow's feather and I wanted to touch it and feel how soft it was but Mom was against it!!

We continued on and came across this twisty and low tree!! It was so cool how it has grown over the years!! It reminded me of Bridge to Terabithia!! While we looked at every twist and turn, I had the urge to climb up a bit, as long as I did not go too far! I felt like a little monkey as I climbed!!

We carried on and we saw this and we were like WOW!! Mom wondered if it happened during when hurricane Sandy hit our area! Mom and my Aunt walked the same trail a year ago and this was never here!! It was amazing to see a tree completely torn up and with the earth still attached!!

 I am still amazed at the sight of this!! It's crazy what nature can do! I am just glad no one lives on the trails and no one was hurt by the tree!!

Here is the same tree, it just keeps going and going and going!! I still can't believe it!!!

It was time to head on home!! I had lots of fun walking the trails with my Mom and I can not wait until to walk the tails again when the pretty leaves start to change color!!

We were almost home when I spotted the first colorful leave!! I love the oranges and greens of it!!! Autumn is on it's way!! Until next time!!!!