They say reading tea leaves can tell you the future. These leaves say we may eventually move out of the rainy, 70 degree weather in to actual fall temperatures. Maybe.
The kids and I spent last weekend climbing trees, picking apples, and raking leaves! The best kinds of exercise.
As far as we know, the Bradford Pear tree in our backyard might actually be producing several types of apples….





Tanaka-Hachimangu Shrine’s Annual Festival
Tokyo Torii Tunnel
My Husband Got Us Detained By Communists on a Former US Marine Base Back in ‘Nam
Alpacas Were the Point of this Trip