into the woods atlanta: noses creek loop @ kennesaw mountain

Photos from our Spring Break week kid-friendly hike at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. We did the Noses Creek Loop trail off Burnt Hickory Road. It was between 1.5 and 2 miles with a lovely pit stop for wading and playing the creek about halfway through. Noah took a little "swim" again and ended up naked in the woods again (with a rubber snake around his neck no less). I am beginning to think he just likes it like this. :) I don't have any problem with that. We had a picnic at the end and the kids ran around in the meadow. It was a beautiful day. Enjoy the photos.

PS I don't have time to edit these pics, so I just throw them up here on the blog. Maybe I'll get around to it a few at a time and repost so they look prettier. :)

 

pale september

Enjoy this ear candy from Fiona Apple & eye candy from our time at a super secret spot near downtown Woodstock yesterday evening. Couldn't have been more beautiful or serene. Evening light yields the best photos... in early fall the light is so intense in the evening you almost have to wait for sundown for the best light. Still this space was magical and I was so glad to have had my camera with me. I have a feeling there'll be more shots of this space in the future. :)

long September shadows...

wild growing persimmon

believe it or not, this is turkey feather :) see the deer trail in the background?

Shiloh and Dakota under the persimmon tree gathering pockets full of fruit

...and here are a few more of the setting sun from a picnic I took with the kids last week...

  

Back tomorrow <3 

Sleep tight!

Love Brooke

picnic!

This past weekend, after spending all day inside going through bags of clothes and closets, pulling out things to sell on craigslist, to donate and to sell at my local consignment shop, and pulling together all my vintage finds to sell in my new Etsy shop, I was going a little stir crazy. My house is not huge, and we've got it arranged in such a way that it doesn't feel very open right now either... so the piles of vintage stuff vs donate stuff vs craigslist stuff vs consignment stuff was overwhelming my house. So we decided no matter what, come hell or high water, we were going to Kennesaw Mountain to try for a hike but definitely a picnic. The hike didn't happen, but the picnic did. 

We had a loverly time. We laid out a quilt in the battlefield off Burnt Hickory Road, plopped the baby down and then Jason and Dakota went crazy with the Arrowcopter the picked up at Harbor Freight. Noah did not enjoy the tall, stiff grass, but ventured out a bit... lots of grasshoppers everywhere, and the perfect evening light made for some great photos of the kids. 

Plain old turkey sandwiches, fruit, carrots and organic ranch dip, and M&M cookies from Publix never tasted so good. 

Here are some photos from our picnic. Enjoy!

Love B