The Pumpkin Patch

Wonderful farm that has a pumpkin festival every weekend during October.  We got some terrific pumpkin soup and picked up a few beauties for this year's display.

Saturday Fun

We hit up a pumpkin farm in the morning and then visited a favorite town in these parts for their annual Oktoberfest.  And we even managed to find some Graverobber Unholy Rye Whiskey from Art in the Age.

Below are some photos we took.

The Autumn People

First of all, it was October, a rare month of boys; full of cold winds, long nights, dark promises. Days get short. The shadows lengthen. The wind warms in such a way, you want to run forever through the fields, because up ahead, ten thousand pumpkins lie waiting to be cut.

- Ray Bradbury

The Scarecrow

All winter through I bow my head
Beneath the driving rain;
The North Wind powders me with snow
And blows me black again;
At midnight 'neath a maze of stars
I flame with glittering rime,
And stand, above the stubble, stiff
As mail at morning-prime.
But when that child called Spring, and all
His host of children, come,
Scattering their buds and dew upon
These acres of my home,
Some rapture in my rags awakes;
I lift void eyes and scan
The sky for crows, those ravening foes,
Of my strange master, Man.
I watch him striding lank behind
His clashing team, and know
Soon will the wheat swish body high
Where once lay a sterile snow;
Soon I shall gaze across a sea
Of sun-begotten grain,
Which my unflinching watch hath sealed
For harvest once again.
 
- Walter de la Mare

Late Harvest

The Cornstalk Tunnel Of Certain Death (3 Tickets)

Photo by Jenna.

Harvest

Milky Way Farm Fall Harvest

We took a trip to Chester Springs, PA to visit Milky Way Farm for their annual Fall Harvest.  130 beautiful acres that felt like entering a Bradbury short story and a Wyeth painting.  The weather was chilly and breezy, and absolutely perfect for meandering the hilly farm with hot cider and pumpkin ice cream for pumpkin picking and a corn maze.  Easily the best pumpkin patch around these parts so this will definitely be an annual tradition for sure.  

Close by was a favorite pizza joint so we headed over there for dinner and then watched CANDYMAN (1992) at a special screening at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville.  A perfect end to a really wonderful day.

Johnny

Netherwood

Click below for a fun walk-through video...

Autumn Effigy

Pumpkins And Lawn Cemeteries

A really nice Saturday filled with Autumn stuff...

Autumnal Equinox

Happy First Day of Fall, everyone.  I feel like this autumn season is FLYING.  My dad was right when he used to warn us that time speeds up as you get older (and more miserable).  Made a corn stalk run last night and will be doing up the porch this weekend in the cooler temps.  I swear unto GOD I will savor this stuff and slow time down whilst I do.