October in the Southeast

Our family is celebrating our first fall season in the southeast this year! I am excited to experience a different season somewhere that is so far away from home and so opposite in climate than where I am from. (Example: Where I live now it was 88 yesterday with extremely high humidity and back home it was 36 and snowing!)

Even though I complained about the snow back home and how the long winters are I think I might miss it! Its like my body is so used to that cold weather this time of year, I find myself putting on pants and sweaters and then arriving outside my house to find that its still HOT where I live now! The locals say it gets cooler, but I haven't felt too chilly more than maybe one evening so far. And that chilly was like a cool summer evening back home in July!

This experience of living so far from home has definitely been exciting and challenging all at the same time. I miss so much about home and more than anything the people, my friends, my safety net of connections, knowing someone that knows someone that is related to so and so. I miss that. Its funny how much you take for granted when your in that place (or job or ___fill in the blank). It makes you appreciate the mundane and common things that you didn't think were too important. The list could go on for me about what I miss.....but I am embracing the new things I am experiencing out here, the connections that are starting to form, my routine and my new normal (as one of my friends told me would start to happen).

We want to make the most of our time here, so for fun last weekend we took the girls to the October festivities that were happening at the local Farm down the road. The girls enjoyed playing in the corn fields and taking a hay ride through the farm to pick pumpkins! A new season brings change, it brings a sense of excitement for a new refreshing start in the next chapter to be written in this life. This is what I love about the change of seasons...even if the seasons feel much warmer or so different.

Of course I had my camera along with me and was able to capture our memories of our first fall experience in the southeast! I absolutely love black and whites, but love the golden colors that came out of the gorgeous fall sunlight on the colored photos too! I had to share both color and black and whites!

Building my business out here is taking time, but its allowing me time to enjoy being a "hobby" photographer. And I have so much yet to learn about photography, so every outing is not only an exploring experience for us, its a time to really slow down with my camera and take in what my children are seeing through my lens. 

The picture above captures her personality so well! She had to be tough and heave that pumpkin all the way back to the wagon. We offered to help, but the age of "I can do it myself" is very present right now! It was a really heavy pumpkin too!

The end to a perfect day! 

Thank you Morris Farms for a great fall experience in the southeast!

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