A Bittersweet Day

My girlfriend and I went out to pick bittersweet today; we came back with her truck filled...we went to the same place we found it last year, and it was even thicker and more beautiful than last year, probably 'cause we had a lot more rain this year...

We were joined by 3 farm dogs and they kept us company, and in return got petted and scratched behind the ears a lot...

I didn't bring my camera with me or I would have taken their pictures...

when we got home, i took mine and started going through it to decorate...put it around my front porch wreath and even some on the corn stalks on the front porch...it's hard to see it on the corn stalks for some reason...

Then I started to decorate the inside and put over some of my door frames and on top of my cupboard, etc.; I just love the way it looks..
It will probably stay up until next year, when we go out and do it all again... Then, we found out that there was a small amount of it just across the road from my house and also some a little farther down the road...I never even noticed it was there...it's really something when you can pick vines out in the country and bring them into your home, and everything suddenly looks festive and so seasonal...