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An October Saturday at the Pumpkin Patch

·San Francisco, California·#fall#bay area#family outing#october#pumpkin patch
Two adults and a baby sit on hay bales outdoors, with a dirt path and sign in the background.

We spent a Saturday afternoon at a pumpkin patch somewhere in the Bay Area back in late October of 2009. It was a bright and sunny day, almost too warm for fall, as we found a spot on some hay bales to take a quick family photo.

The place had all the standard fall festival attractions, including those classic painted plywood cutouts for photo ops. Our daughter was particularly taken with the black cat, posing in it multiple times. We all eventually got in on the action, posing as a scarecrow and a little farmer baby.

The patch itself was sprawling, with hundreds of pumpkins laid out in the sun against the dry, grassy hills. It was pretty crowded, with plenty of other families on the same mission. We grabbed a little cart and set off to find our pumpkins for the year. Our daughter was very serious about her selection and insisted on pushing the cart herself once we had loaded it up.

A young child looks through a cutout in a black cat and pumpkin-themed wooden board on hay.A child poses in a black cat cutout board with pumpkins, their head in the cat's face and hands in its paws.A child smiles with their head in a black cat standee holding pumpkins, with green plants in the background.An adult, another adult with a baby, and a child pose in fall-themed cutouts on hay bales.Many people browse thousands of orange and white pumpkins in a large outdoor pumpkin patch with tree-covered hills in the background.A person and a child in a pumpkin patch, surrounded by many orange pumpkins, holding a white pumpkin and a wagon handle.A child in a purple dress pushes a white wagon among many pumpkins in a sunlit pumpkin patch.A smiling child's face appears through a black cat-shaped cutout, with white fur, ears, and an orange pumpkin below.

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