apple picking days
on sunday evening i got a bee in my bonnet to go to apple hill and do a little photo shoot.
now usually on a sunday in september, i would never brave the teeming crowds at apple hill, but this time it was after hours. all the farmstands had closed up shop, the craft stands were covered in canvas, the sun was going down over the western vineyards sloping down into the canyon, and i had the orchards all to myself!
i wanted to do a little modeling for my etsy shop but i am soooo very awkward about solo photo shoots for so many reasons including but not limited to:
1. if a car drives by and i think there is a chance anyone will see me photographing myself i get super flustered and embarrassed and fight the urge to run and hide and instead stand there trying to look natural and looking like a total dumbstruck moron instead
2. i feel like i am trespassing (cause i am) and glance sneakily and guiltily around all the time
3. i am mortified about changing in public, not out of any modesty issues myself but out of sympathy for an innocent bystander who might chance upon me and wonder wtf?!
add to that my paranoia about my camera possibly toppling over on the tripod, and i'm jumpy as a catfish.
needless to say, i got a whopping TWO items photographed before the sun went down.
but i did have fun frolicking that little dirt road, watching deer and jackrabbits, and gathering windfall.
despite my guilt, i came home with a basket of pears, walnuts, and apples with only a few bites and bruises.
despite my guilt, i came home with a basket of pears, walnuts, and apples with only a few bites and bruises.
two good signs: a flock of geese changed direction right over my head, and a woman's haunting bluesy singing voice came floating through the vineyards toward me. i felt like i had landed in a secret hilly wonderland, and the sky turned pink and violet, and the sun went down.
now...i will continue to pray for cooler days and real fall, and hope to come back after the equinox!
outfit deets:
skirt: for sale in my etsy shop
sandals: Blowfish, on clearance from a long ago Delia's sale
hat: thrifted
turquoise necklace: handmade, from a local trading post that closed down
Comments
Gorgeous skirt too!
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That skirt looks so pretty on you. And I'm sure no random stranger would be that horrified to come upon you mid-change in an orchard hah.
can't wait to go apple picking. we always go when we visit my sister. it's super fun. i hope to go to the pumpkin patch as well, nothing like cutting your own pumpkin off the vine.
the sunset pic is breathtaking!
i have been itching to get up to apple hill, too, but i have to get there during business hours (read: apple. cider. donuts.)