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Preparing to Leave We gathered near Dad's office, and had to wait for a few more people to show up before we could go. |
Grandpa Bob He's an Antique Person! |
Directions and Donuts Two ingredients in any trip. |
Dad and Student The lighting wasn't right, but oh well. It would have been nice if she'd had a name tag, too... |
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Wagons Yes, there were quite a few wagons there, to carry along the gourds you eventually wanted. |
"We Welcome You To Our Farm" "Welcome to the Great Pumpkin Patch" |
"We Ask That You:" "Do Not Climb On Anything" is probably the most amusing. |
Waiting To Enter We're here, now when can we get in! |
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Pumpkin with Writing Wow, how do they grow it like that? |
Ugly Gourd I had no idea what I was in for yet. |
Entering the Farm This was just the first area with squash for sale... |
Finger Squash I think it had a different name, but I didn't write it down. |
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African Warty Yep, those are warts alright! |
Yugoslavian Finger Okay, maybe I *did* get the name. Good! |
Orange-and-Black Not quite Illini. |
Orage-and-Black, II It was a pretty one, at least. |
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Just Pumpkins That's a lot of pumpkins. |
Pumpkins The field of orange was actually pretty neat. |
Baking Squash Area Grandpa didn't really know what to think about it all. |
Stacked Pumpkins They seemed to stay up pretty well, given it was a windy day... |
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Tree Pumpkins Some pumpkins grow in trees. Apparently. |
Display Pumpkins Those that had taken the flower arrangement classes were the most impressed with these. |
Coloured Gourds Red, Orange, and Yellow... |
Coloured Gourds, II ...Green and Blue... |
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Coloured Gourds, III ...Violet, Tan, and White. Whee, rainbow. |
Red Warty Thing "It's red and warty... go figure." Thank you for the caption! |
Wall of Pumpkins They spread it out this year, apparently, so they could all be seen. I've got more pictures of it later. |
Labelled Gourds I'm sure there was a theme to this, but I don't know what it was. |
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Alpaca The random animals they had at the farm were quite amusing to me. |
Pigs I guess the pigs weren't as exciting... |
Three Little Pigs ...but they did have a Big Bad Wolf watching over them, which was amusing. |
Hay Monsters Hubcap eyes can make the most innocuous of bales of hay vicious-looking. |
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Galeux d'Eysines "As ugly as it is not good looking". Again, amusing to my dad and I. |
Pumpkin Tree This was our meeting spot. |
Dad and Hay Bale Monster Don't eat him, please! |
Goat There were a bunch of goats, but, well, they're not really that exciting to take pictures of. |
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Hay Maze It was hard to avoid just climbing out the top. |
Nate in the Maze I could at least get pictures from above... |
Spider Bale He's coming to get us... |
Bunny ...must not think of effective ways to cook it with pumpkin... |
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Mount Laganarta Now this was an interesting attraction. |
Mount Laganarta, II Stacks and stacks of Laganarta gourds... |
Mount Laganarta, III It photographed well, too. |
Hay Buffalo You are what you eat. |
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Kiddie Area I'm not sure this was strictly necessary, since there was plenty of other stuff to do, but hey, who am I to argue? |
Big Pumpkins These were the hundreds of pounders. Not that I got to try to lift them. Hmmph. |
Noah's Ark The cutest attraction was also the most religious. |
Noah's Ark, II The gourds marched in two by two! (And I like the snakes.) |
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Australian Butter Apparently the best pumpkin on the farm. We probably should have tried one. |
Mack This guy is the geneticist that works for the farm, and really gets/takes care of the huge variety of gourds. He was an interesting person to listen to. |
Fluffy Chickens I'm not a huge chicken fan, but these guys were pretty neat. |
Pretty Chickens These guys were even neater. |
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Chicken Taunting Come, try the tasty child! |
Hay Tower I don't know what the guy was doing on top. |
Mountain of Gourds This was the best way of seeing just how many different varieties there were on the farm. |
Mountain of Gourds, II I think the pictures do a pretty good job of showing the number of varieties, too. |
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Mountain of Gourds, III Let's just ignore the central hay tower, shall we? |
Mountain of Gourds, IV I hope that my Dad can find something useful from these to use in his class. |
Mountain of Gourds, V I'm betting that it won't be that hard... |
Wall of Gourds In this case, the Cucurbita section. |
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Wall of Gourds, II That's a nice display. |
Mums The other purpose of the farm is to sell a few flowers. But that's not as fun to take pictures of, at least not for me... |
Llama Many that have journeyed with me on my photo safaris in the past have noticed my fascination with animals. |
Llama, II Well, the llama is no exception to this rule! |
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Llama, III I'm a llama, you're a llaama! |
Alpaca Not a llama! |
Llama, IV Llama llama duck! |
Llama, V Okay, I'll stop singing now that I've already gotten the song back in your head. |
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Llama, VI More sensible people would have stopped taking pictures of the llama by now. |
Llama, VII But not me! |
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