We went to my parents’ home in West Virginia for the festivities. Thanksgiving morning, I decided to head out for a walk. I invited my husband to go with me, but he turned me down.
“I’ll go!” my older daughter said. “Can I bring Charlotte?”
When my younger son saw us step outside, he begged to be allowed to come, too. Feeling extravagant—I already had a girl and a dog coming with me, so why not add one six-year-old to the mix?—I said yes. (I forgot to tell anyone else that he was coming with us, though, shame on me, so my husband was worried the whole time. But not worried enough to catch up to us, I might point out.)
The sun was bright, the air crisp, the ground frosty. We walked and I took pictures and my son held my hand and told me knock-knock jokes.
Here I am rocking the hunter safety orange. Why in the world do they make the orange camouflage? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose?
We walked the whole way up to a little church that has a spring in it. The handwritten signs couldn’t have been more appropriate.
On the way home, we encountered a lot of fresh blood sprayed all over the middle of the road and I was reminded that I was indeed in West Virginia in the middle of hunting season.
And thus ended our picturesque Thanksgiving Day walk.
Update: My husband read this and then offered a correction. “I wasn’t worried. I was just curious if he was up in the woods about to get shot.”
This same time, years previous: in which I discuss sweet rolls and weight issues, pasta with creamy pumpkin sauce, steel-cut oatmeal, cranberry pie with cornmeal streusel topping, apple rum cake
7 Comments
Starr
Hahaha, just curious about the kid getting shot in the woods? Very funny. Lovely photos!
Jules
The last line made me laugh!
katie
Yea, I believe deer are color blind, but what does alert them is large areas of a single color, so they break up the blaze orange so that other hunters can see you, but the deer cannot. Or that's how I understand it.
Jennifer Jo
Oh! THAT makes sense!
Dan and Diione Murch
I think it's because deer don't see orange. Other hunters will see you, but the deer won't.
Beautiful Pics!
the domestic fringe
Gorgeous pictures! West Virginia is a pretty place.
~FringeGirl
Suburban Correspondent
Love the orange camouflage comment! It does seem oxymoronic, doesn't it?