Last year Derek and I found a stretch of trees that really pop with color during the fall. The trees are on the edge of a elementary school parking lot, so it works out well to take photos there during the weekend.
We drove past that area early last week and noticed the reds and oranges. I was looking forward all week to taking more photos!
I love having our own, established spot. And I also love that it’s nearby, too.
I’m thankful that Derek is patient and takes many photos (literally over 150) so he knows for sure that I will like some of them. It’s quite funny that I snap about five photos of Derek, and he’s satisfied.
I love taking photos, mainly of outdoor related landscapes. I would say that my absolute favorite is fall leaves though. I’m truly happy when I’m photographing a colorful tree!
I’ve been living my best life this past month, as someone who loves to photograph fall foliage.
A couple of weekends ago we went to a stretch of brightly colored trees that are along side of a nearby elementary school, and had some fun taking portrait shots of each other.
Then last weekend we found some trees in Coolidge park. I had to get on Derek’s shoulders in order to get the angle I wanted, with the leaves in the foreground and the Walnut Street Bridge in the background. He’s a good sport!
Yesterday we went to Blowing Springs Farm, a farm that is open Fridays and weekends starting in late September through the month of October.
The farm is located just over the border of Georgia, which added another element of excitement for me. Now I can say that I’ve been to a new state. Everyone does it differently, but I do not count driving through!
The farm is mainly for families with young kids, but that has never stopped us before! However, we did see some groups with just older people too.
The main focus (and also the gift shop) of the farm is the See Rock City red barn, painted to look like a bird house. All though we have not seen any yet, there are advertisement barns all over the southeast on the sides of highways that have “See Rock City” painted on them. This particular barn is the only one you can actually see at Rock City, an attraction on top of Lookout Mountain. It will be fun to go to Rock City, hopefully sometime soon, and be able to look down and see the red barn below.
Admission is $10 per person and it includes four activity tokens. Each activity is one token. You can buy extra tokens if you want to. We picked out three activities (the ones that are more for us old folks.)
We did the corn maze, the hay ride and the critter coral.
The corn maze was bigger than I expected. At first I was disappointed because the corn stalks at the front were small and we towered over them, but once you got in the middle and towards the back, we were quite lost! They did a good job of making a lot of dead ends and turn arounds.
The critter corral had all kinds of smaller animals to pet. There were alpacas, miniature horses, donkeys, rabbits, pigs and cows. The cows had a lot of fluffy hair; they were my favorite.
The hay ride was small and short, but still nice. It entered through a back portion of the corn maze.
We also bought a pumpkin to take home at the pumpkin market. This cost extra so it did not use up tokens. I will use my leftover tokens for scrapbooking.
Some of the kid activities included a cow train, a corn sling shot, rubber duck races, and go cart races.
We had a great morning and I recommend it for anyone who’s looking to have a good fall themed outing.
See Rock City!
Inside the corn maze.
A higher up view of the corn maze and barn from a little wooden bridge.
These fluffy cows were my favorite!
Entering the corn maze on the hayride.
A little section to buy pumpkins.
A playground for the kids, with the cow train passing through in the front.
