I had mentioned to Mom before we left two weeks ago that I had really missed apple picking since I moved away from home. Not many states (or countries, for that matter) have apple orchards where locals are free to roam and pick to their heart's content. Ohio is one of those magical places ;) Sunday morning we called everyone up and made plans to meet at the lake to get some pictures of the kids and let them play on the playground and then we'd be off for some apple picking. The sun was in a bad spot so the pictures didn't come out like I'd hoped, but the kids had fun nonetheless. We stopped for a quick bite at Wendy's before we headed out to Hartford. The orchard hit hard times the last few years. The original owner had passed it down to his son, but his son didn't want to have anything to do with it so the apples got a little disfigured and eaten away by pests. Thankfully someone came to the rescue and the apples are slowly making a comeba...