In search of fall color, sort of

We made our annual 45 minute trek east to Red Wing on Saturday, a tradition we established about 5 years ago to see the colorful autumn bluffs and do a little shopping. The previous weekend was cold and rainy, and this one was chilly too, but we decided to bundle up and brave the elements.Mother nature has been an uncooperative wench lately. The trees seem late to change color this year, so we took in a lot of green and a bit of yellow. There was some sort of art fair going on downtown, so we parked and checked out some of the vendors' goodies. Traipsing around in the cold gives you an appetite, so we bought some cookies for the kids, and this concoction - an "ultimate caramel apple" for Nate & me.
Here I am, everything right with the world when I'm ready to sink my teeth into a caramel apple dipped in pecans and slathered in milk chocolate. This bad boy deserves a close-up.
We poked around in some shops during the afternoon, then headed to our usual dinner destination, Godfather's Pizza. Nicky whined and moaned and didn't want to sit still for a picture, then came up with some bizarre googly eyes for this shot. Now, the Red Wing Godfather's is unique. They've secured our business every year by piling on the crumbly topping of their dessert pizza so amazingly thick that it sticks to your teef and the roof of your mouf like peanub bubber. Mmmm. This photo doesn't do it justice. And there you have it. We pigged out and went home.

Speaking of mother nature again, we woke up to this very early snowfall today:

Crazy. Crayziee, even. It seems especially wrong given that we haven't even reached peak fall color yet. The weather dude said our average first 1 inch snowfall is Nov. 18, so we beat that by over a month.
And just for fun, I'm throwing in this pic of the kids that Nate took last week. They don't generally worship the t.v. at such close range, but something must have piqued their interest in this mii's eyeball selection.