A visit to the pumpkin patch

Since Julianna was 18 months old, we've been going to Summer's Farm pumpkin patch.  So I have 8 years worth of photos of one or the other of my kids posing in front of the same copyright infringing cut outs of Magic Schoolbus characters and sitting in the same hay-filled barn.  But this year, the school trips are to Jumbo's (imagine!) and I'm not going.  My college roommate Janet invited Lily and I to come out to Elioak Farm near Ellicott City.  Not only do they have lots of critters, but they have rescued some of the old exhibits from The Enchanted Forest , one of those kinda creepy storybook lands.  They get REALLY creepy when they're abandoned, as this one was in 1989.  Anyway, the farm aquired the stuff and is restoring it and placing it around the kiddie area. 

Lily said, "Look Mommy!  Giant rats!  Let's go see them!"


The stuff just doesn't seem as sinister now that it's all cleaned up and in a clearing, you know?



But it's all about the pumpkins, in the end.



If, for whatever reason (like you're Janet or one of Lily's grandparents) you wish to see the other pics of Lily and Ian at the farm, here you go.