Saturday, October 22, 2011

A Little Bit O' Country

For the past several Octobers, we've had the little tradition of squishing in the Gilmore van and taking a short drive upstate to pick ourselves some pumpkins.  It's always fun-crisp air, a hay ride, apple cider, homemade doughnuts, and a real country experience.  Or as close as you can get to a country experience an hour and half from they city.   

This is what our real country pumpkin patch looked like.  The pumpkins grow nestled in a green, grassy field.  No dirt, no vines.   
I kind of like it because Lucia could crawl around without getting too dirty and the orange on green sure made for a pretty picture.  

                              
            
Our real country experience also included a decent crowd of people and even someone directing parking.  Ha, ha! Look at Lucia's face in this picture.
                                                  


Fun on the hayride.


And for even more fun, pictures from one of our first pumpkin picking adventures.  My how things have changed.  Look how little Ruby was!
                                      


And pumpkins used to be exciting enough to draw Luke out of the van.   To be fair, it was much colder  this year.