Photo Tour: Fall in the Finger Lakes

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Like many women, I am unabashed about my love for the fall season. Now that I live on the East Coast, my obsession over the months of October and November has only grown to fresh, more ridiculous levels. Later this month we're off to Virginia for some fall hiking and nerdy history tours (and to check out the weddings and honeymoon scene in Richmond and Charlottesville), but this time last year we were exploring the Finger Lakes region of New York.

We hopped in a rented Volkswagen Beetle, which the husband was more than slightly embarrassed by and I embraced with typical abandon, for a tour of Owego, Ithaca, Geneva and Aurora. Like most of my work-related trips, it was a fast and jam-packed itinerary but we managed to sneak in plenty of QT at the region's family-owned farms. There was pumpkin-picking, apple orchard-frolicking (me, mostly) and an all-around eye-opening lesson on just how many independent farms and producers there are in New York.

More details on fall activities in the Finger Lakes to come. In the meantime, PUMPKINS!