Saturday, October 10, 2009

Hanging Out in the Rows

Today we went to a farm out in Livermore with our neighbors to check out their corn maze and pumpkin patch. I didn't realize it. but the farm next to our house also has a corn maze. If I'd known that we wouldn't have trekked out to Livermore. But it still made for good low-key fun.

It was a beautiful sunny day, and quite warm out in Livermore and I was wishing we'd brought a bottle of water into the corn maze with us. The maze itself was fun. Just a nice way to get outside and enjoy the day. We really didn't get lost, but then again we were using a map. I'm pretty sure the guys were looking for more of a challenge. A few of their suggestions were to have monsters chasing people in the maze, or a mountain lion. And each person would be allowed a steak knife as a defensive weapon—a plastic steak knife. Men. But they were laughing and having fun with it.


Corn field

Corn field



Sunlight in the corn

Sunlight in the corn



Ladybug in the corn

Ladybug in the corn—I never knew corn silk has those little hairs! Click on the image to open a high resolution version and you'll see what I mean.



After the maze, we headed over to the pumpkin patch to take pictures. We didn't buy any pumpkins, partly because it's still a bit early to buy jack-o'-lantern pumpkins, and partly because we'd like to support our local farm by purchasing pumpkins there.

pumpkins at the base of a tree

Pumpkins at the base of a tree



Pumpkins in dappled sunlight

Pumpkins in dappled sunlight



Kid in a wagon

Kid in a wagon



Girl carrying a pumpkin

Girl carrying a pumpkin—I plan to crop this one a bit and try to photoshop out that orange fence



Boy in the pumpkin patch

Boy in the pumpkin patch



Wagon loaded with multi-colored pumpkins

Wagon loaded with multi-colored pumpkins



It's unfortunate that the farm had to corral their pumpkin patch with that neon orange construction fence, but I understand why they have to do it. I was going to try to photoshop that out, but it appears I didn't install my Adobe programs correctly when setting up this computer. Will have to deal with that later.

Another reason we didn't buy any pumpkins was that, quite frankly, they were charging way too much for their pumpkins—$7.00 for a pumpkin from the patch, more for other choice pumpkins at the produce stand. Though the produce stand area did provide more fodder for photo fun.

Pumpkin and gourds

Pumpkin and gourds



Multi-colored gourds

Multi-colored gourds



milkcan and wagonwheel

Milkcan and wagonwheel



Indian corn

Indian corn

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