Arboretum in Autumn

This past Saturday we went to the Arboretum where Josh and I got engaged 5 years ago. I wanted to have a fall picnic on the grounds, but it was too cold that day. We went to the park first, and then we came home and had an indoor picnic. Matthew really liked eating on the floor on a blanket.

Here's the tree where Josh proposed, and look, it's not even changing colors yet! It's as green as springtime. I think we came too early, cause most of the trees hadn't changed yet. We were hoping to see some beautiful fall colors.

This is us, under the tree. We can't quite give Matthew the camera to take a picture of us yet.


Some nice father/son shots.

And mother and son.

Last time we were here (which was almost 2 years ago), I was 5 months pregnant with Matthew, so I thought we'd get another pregnancy pic. Only this time, I'm 7 1/2 months along.

Josh took this neat shot of the sun shining through the tree branches.

We thought this looked so cute. This newly planted little tree all red for fall, yet surrounded by his buddies that are as green as can be. I guess he's not afraid to stand alone and be different.

This was the prettiest tree we saw, so we took some time here. The color was so brilliant that I don't think the camera truly captured it.

I love the difference between the brightness and fullness of the one and the darkness and nakedness of the other. Total opposites.

Close up of a leaf, though it turned out blurry.

Matthew getting his own close up of a leaf.

And that was the essence of our excursion. It was a cool crisp day, but we were warmed from our family time spent together (altogether now, aww!) ;)