We’ve created a nice little family tradition around going out to a nearby farm, Thorn Crest, each fall to get some pumpkins and soak up the autumnal ambience. (See the 2007 post, three posts in 2008 including a photo recap, and an allusion in 2009.) We spent a couple beautiful hours out there on Saturday, browsing the gourds, buying holiday decorations, petting the farm dogs, feeding grass to the lonely bull, enjoying the view from of the picturesquely dilapidated barn,
taking the mandatory pictures of the girls on an old pick-up truck (see some previous years),
and defying our size by pulling a wagonful of pumpkins around.
All in all, a very good time. The only way it would have been better: fresh pumpkin pie and coffee.
We love that place. Now we’ve discovered Silky Gardens and their wonderful raspberries, and the little pumpkin patch on Cty Rd 1.