Leaves and such

Today on our way up to see lil’ Piper, we took the long way around and stopped to get some shots of the changing leaves. The colors still aren’t peaking. I’m thinking probably next weekend will be better. There were still some pretty good ones already, though. I might get in trouble for posting some of these photos. A couple of them, Reagan told me that she didn’t like. I think that she is crazy. In my opinion she is so photogenic, it is really hard to get a photo of her that doesn’t come out great. Here are a couple of more goodies:

We found this cool old house/pavilion that was in the middle of the woods.

More photos over here.

After our little jaunt into the countryside, we had a nice visit with Piper, before heading home and watching Lost Boys. For the Twilight crowd: Lost Boys came out before vampires had developed sparkly skin or played vampire baseball.

Now comes the real irony. After the movie, I noticed a little brown spot on my leg. At first I thought it was a new mole. Nope. Some how, during that grand total of 15 minutes that Reagan and I spent outside of the car taking some photos, I managed to become a host to a blood sucking tick. The whole time that we were watching Lost Boys, I had my own little vampire friend doing some work on my leg.

We burnt him with a match (which killed him) and thought about trying other traditional methods of getting him out, before I had Reagan do some research online. We discovered that matches, crisco, soap, etc., are pretty much worst things you can do. Whoops. ultimately I was able to pluck him out with a pair of tweezers, with his head intact. Here is a photo of the little guy. A close up, on the left, then the one on the right, for reference.