Pumpkin Pickin'

Back on October 28th Emerald and I went out to see some friends of Liane's parents who owned a farm and sold pumpkins every October. I forgot to post them until now, so I apologize in advance to anyone who's been waiting for these pics.

Here's Emerald waiting to be taken out to the field to pick her pumpkin.

And what farm would be complete without a bouncing happy dog?

In the field, Emerald took her time wandering around, looking for that perfect pumpkin.

I think she just found it.

While we were there I took a shot of Marty (Liane's mom) and her friend. Marty is the one in the purple shirt.

And here's a shot of the couple who owns the farm. I can't remember their names, but they were very nice and made it a lot of fun for us.

Here, Emerald is getting ready for the trip to the pumpkin washing station. It was a pretty bumpy ride. She was offered the chance to ride up on the tractor, but I think she felt safer down in back.

Yep, that's me and Emerald posing with a huge piece of quartz dug up on the farm. It was very bright that morning and the photographer's back was to the sun, so you can understand why we're squinting.

Another shot of Emerald riding on the trailer back to the farm buildings.

The couple was very nice and insisted we take numerous pumpkins home with us. Ironically we didn't end up carving any this year, but we still had a lot of fun picking them out. Also, after Halloween was over and done with, a squirrel made several of the pumpkins we left out on the porch into meals, so our cats were happy with the arrangement as well.

-Bob