Fall and giant chess

I can not stop being in awe of the leaf colors this year, especially the maples. So I had to take a picture, although here you can really see the limitations of the iPhone camera. And my lack of photo-taking talent, but I refuse to care about that.

We have been in the shopping plaza where the giant outdoor chess set is twice now in a week, and the kids can't get enough of it. Reece doesn't even care if he loses to Greyson so long as he can move the pieces (especially the rook - usually his first move). When he takes one of Greyson's pieces, he knocks it down like he's playing wizard chess (see Harry Potter book 1 if you don't know what that is). I keep expecting someone of authority to come out and yell at him for this, but so far we've been left to ourselves to play as we see fit.

On a related note, Dan has an iPhone now (the 4, but I am not jealous - much) and took some better pictures of the boys playing the second time, but he hasn't yet played with all the features so they remain on his phone for the time being.