All over the FB and the Internet I'm seeing gorgeous photos of not only amazing pumpkin recipes (which I'm mostly refraining from making this year), but of my friends and family taken during visits to local Pumpkin Patches.
Like this one for instance:
Like this one for instance:
This is my little cousin Nolan - how cute is he?
I know that this season is huge back in Canada (and the States), not only because the month of October brings us Thanksgiving and Halloween, but a celebration of pumpkins themselves. The south coast and valley of Nova Scotia host an annual Pumpkin People festival which is always fun to witness if you fancy a drive.
When we went to Ontario to meet our Clara for the first time in the Autumn of 2010 we were thrilled to take a trip to a pumpkin patch to meet up with friends. It was a perfect day, brilliant for taking photos:
(Clara was so little then)
What a great way to spend an autumn day.
Apparently the town of Spalding in Lincolnshire has a pumpkin festival each year (which we've missed), however other than that there doesn't seem to be any local pumpkin places where you can go for a wander round. I would love to be able to take Jayden to see a proper pumpkin patch; I'm sure he'd really enjoy it. I know his Grandy and I would love to watch him run around while we tried to capture the moment with a camera.
Halloween and supermarket pumpkin displays have become much more popular since I first moved over here which I love to see because I enjoy this time of year, even though we have once again deferred hosting a Halloween Party.
*Sigh* Oh well... maybe next year.
1 comment:
Is it the climate? Don't pumpkins grow well in the UK? I would think they would with all the rain. But, for what it's worth, I can't grown them in my garden--we have to go to an expensive patch to pick ours or the grocery store. We can save a lot of money the second way, but the photo op isn't as great :)
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