Leaf peeping at Letchworth State Park

I wanted to go leaf peeping and Aaron wanted to fly his drone. So we hopped in the car and took a day trip to Letchworth State Park.

I tried out the new Instagram app, Boomerang while we were on the trip.

Drone take off on #boomerang Watch the leaves. #drone #drones #djiphantom #dji

A video posted by Jenny Cisney (@ljc) on Oct 24, 2015 at 4:42pm PDT

Letchworth consists of 14,350 acres along the Genesee River.

When @ljc and I went out yesterday - THIS is the video I set out to capture with the drone.

A video posted by Aaron (@aaron_istic) on Oct 25, 2015 at 7:57pm PDT

The river has created 600 feet tall cliffs over thousands of years.

video

The river also has three big waterfall, the largest of which is 107 feet high.

All of it perfect for shooting video and photos with a drone. Look at this amazing video Aaron took of Middle Falls.

Soon after some people came down off the bridge - this beast came rollin by. #fall #train

A video posted by Aaron (@aaron_istic) on Oct 24, 2015 at 3:32pm PDT

We walked by the Glen Iris Inn to see the spot where the Ice Volcano formed during the winter.

Can you believe this natural fountain was this giant Ice Volcano last March?

We kept walking up to Upper Falls and the Portage Bridge.

So many nice photo ops along the way.

I think we hit the peak of leaf peeping season.

I haven't taken a foot shot in awhile.

We may or may not have ventured out onto a certain bridge to take photos.

You can't http://blog.ljcfyi.com/images/2015/oct2015/beat the view!

Moments later...

video

That bridge was creaking and groaning as the train inched across. It WAS built in 1875. Still holding up.

#leafpeeping on Boomerang. #fall #autumn

A video posted by Jenny Cisney (@ljc) on Oct 25, 2015 at 2:44pm PDT

What a great day leaf peeping and droning!

Rolling on over to Rolling Thunder Festival

I saw a poster on the Le Petite Poutine truck advertising the Rolling Thunder Festival at Ellison Park. The website said it would be a "food truck rodeo on steroids". Who can resist the call of a herd of food trucks? Not me.

It was a nice day so we rode our bikes to the park. Aaron rode Green Lantern and I rode Triple Chocolate.

Every food truck I could think of was at Rolling Thunder. It was quite a site to see them all parked in a big semi-circle. You can follow Rolling Thunder on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

I had Le Petite Poutine again. Two days in a row!

We also stopped at the Eat Me Ice Cream bikes. All the bikes got a chance to hang out together.

Feed the birds

Temperatures actually crawled out of the single digits today so we went for a walk in Mendon Ponds Park.

They have bird watching trails where if you hold your hand out full of bird seed, chickdees and other little birds will come eat it out of your hand. This one is a nuthatch. He is looking at Aaron like "Is this all you got pal?!"

I loved feeding the birds. I feel like Snow White.

They tend to sneak up behind you. I could hear their wings fluttering on a branch behind me and then with a *fwap fwap fwap* one would swoop down onto my hand. Aaron may have jumped like a Nervous Nellie the first time.

Their little feet really cling onto your fingers and they are heavier than they look.

The best is when they take their time selecting their treat, picking through the selection of seeds in your hand.

Aaron got me a fisheye lens for Christmas and I took it along on our walk.

The squirrels were getting in on the handout too.

It was a lot of fun to try out.

Looking up.

Corbett's Glen

I've seen a few people post pictures of Corbett's Glen on Instagram and decided to see where it was. I was surprised to find it was so close... right outside the city!

We decided to go and check it out with my parents. Since it's been raining so much the water was rushing through the park.

It's such a nice park. We only walked through half of it, but we will be back!