Cold Cider - Hot Donuts

It's Autumn in Michigan. My favorite time of the year! There are a lot of cider mills in our area and they're really a big thing around here. When my son was little we used to go through the haunted houses and the corn mazes, Sometimes we'd pick a bushel of apples. Some of the cider mills around where we live have hayrides out into the orchards. My favorite time to go on the hayrides is on a cold, cloudy, dismal day when the trees are all bare and gnarled. It's a real spooky Halloween feeling. You can almost expect a headless horseman to come galloping out of the woods. After that it's time to head to the mill and get a bottle of ice cold, fresh cider and a bag of hot donuts. Bliss!! My hometown is in upstate NY near the Vermont border and the fall leaves are spectacular up there. The colors are more brilliant than here in Michigan and all the leaves seem to turn at the same time. They don't have cider mills up there though!