I’d never been in a pumpkin patch until I was sent to photograph people picking their own pumpkins a few weeks ago. Fortunately, it was one of those patches where the pumpkins (and other gourds) are still attached to the vine and you have to wade through the mess of vines in search of the perfect pumpkin. Also fortunately, the quality of light was splendid.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Natalie Claghorn, 2.5 years old and of West Manchester Township, stands up in the pumpkin wagon as her parents Melissa and Dave cut another pumpkin off the vine at Barefoot Farm on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Barefoot Farm, which has grown about 40 varieties of pumpkins and gourds this year, has opened its pumpkin patch for pick-your-own in Dover Township.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dave Semple of Dover Township offers a “Colin-sized pumpkin” to his 18-month-old son Colin at Barefoot Farm on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.
(Can I just say, though, that while I enjoyed making pictures in a thoroughly picturesque pumpkin patch, I’m kinda over America’s obsession with pumpkins? I know that “pumpkin is the new bacon,” but I feel like the advent of pumpkin spice cream cheese — looking at you, Philadelphia Cream Cheese — is an indication that we’ve officially jumped the shark in terms of ridiculous food trends. I should also add that I generally do not like pumpkin-flavored things.)
(That said, Jeff and I did pick and buy our own pumpkins this year, for purely ornamental — and carving — purposes.)
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