fall 2010, second annual jumping festival, and pumpkins.

you do it once, it's just plain fun.  do it for the second time, about a year later, and it's a tradition.

over the weekend, we returned to the National Arboretum to capture the magic again. we love that place. and we found a much better/easier/overall-more-efficient way to get there, so that is  awesome. sadly, very few trees are changing colors as of yet. but we visited what proved to be the prettiest tree last year, and were not disappointed. we had an 8-year-olds' picnic (PBJ + chips) under it and became entranced by the reflection of all the pretty in each others' sunglasses.

then we got down to the very serious business of jumping photos to rival last year's. in all, i shot something like 267 photos. i edited down to 160. and i figured the very best way to share them all is to fly through them in 1 minute and 30 seconds via stop-action style video!

music: "the hardest geometry problem in the world" Rushmore OST.

man, i am SO SORE ALL OVER MY BODAY from all that horsin' around.  no joke.  this is when i realize that i'm "old".

THEEENN on sunday we carved $3 giant-ass pumpkins! this was accomplished whilst watching The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Great Pumpkin, and The Monster Squad (in that order).  and i have no idea why it took that long?  maybe because we didn't have any "proper" tools and just used reguar knives; so my hand cramped up like crazy, but the end result was worth it. 

i love the stem on mine . . it's all thick and twisty and still green.  you don't get pumpkins like that in FL, and certainly NOT for only $3.  hmmm, there you have it.  our 2nd FALL in DC has started off with a resounding "YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!"