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October Saturday at Clancy's 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.

Drove into the city for an October Saturday at Clancy's, the pumpkin patch on Sloat right next to the zoo, at the corner where Sloat meets Skyline. Their sign claims the first pumpkin patch in San Francisco, going back to 1979, and on a warm Saturday it looked like most of the city had turned up — rows and rows of pumpkins, wheelbarrows everywhere, hay bales, the whole thing.

The kid could not be pulled away from the photo cutout board: a black cat sitting on pumpkins, face-hole just at toddler height. Went back to it again and again, hands hooked over the edge. At one point we got everyone lined up in it — scarecrow, farmer with the baby poking out the top, cat.

Then the actual pumpkin selection, which the kid handled by commandeering a wheelbarrow nearly as tall as the handles allowed. We came home with a white one, small enough to ride in the wheelbarrow next to nothing else. The Michigan jersey got some sun on the hay bales while the baby napped through half of it.

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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