I enjoy the weekly photohunt challenges and this week the theme is orange. What a perfect theme to start of our halloween agenda just around the corner and orange is really the predominant color of this season.
One of my favorite Halloween spots is in the city of Petaluma about an hours drive north of San Francisco. Here you will find one of the largest corn mazes in California, along with the ubiquitous pumpkin patch, petting zoo and horse rides, huge sunflowers and of course lots of squeeling children.
The spectacular and huge blooms of these giant sunflowers are just that...bursting and huge circled eyes filled with millions of seeds. I'm surprised the birds haven't attacked all the flowers already - they look so inviting!
Well there were so many of these cute cut outs, I just had to ask someone to take a picture of me in one of these cute/silly frames - what a ham :)
Children are so fun to watch and their animated gestures and excited nature in participating in an event so delicious and lets them play is really special. I love to capture wonderful moments that shows you some of these magical moments.
Miniature pumpkins spilling out of containers and large displays of squash and other strange pumpkin colored vegetable draw you in to pick up one or more of them to take home for your Halloween displays.
I really felt like a child again seeing all the colorful displays, the happy children and beautiful sunflowers and pumpkins, this time of year brings out the playful in everyone and thats such a nice thing to celebrate with family and dear friends.
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Definitely lots of orange on your post. I do love the pumpkin fields so much fun especially for the children.
ReplyDeleteWhat great shots! Thanks for sharing them :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post for the orange theme. The pumpkins and sunflowers are great and I enjoyed the Halloween fun.
ReplyDeletelovely! my fave is that child dragging a pumpkin,,,hes cute!
ReplyDeletehappy weekend!
I know this very fun Petaluma pumpkin patch very well as it is right in my neck of the woods. You took some wonderful shots. I think I may have to go visit next week when the rain goes away.
ReplyDeleteoh wonderful photos, love the pumpkins and the sunflower they're huge! Lovely Sunday!
ReplyDeleteI just love pumpkins. They just seem like they should have personality.
ReplyDeleteAloha Noel, each of your shots are just so beautiful!! Love the combination of the pumpkins and the sunflowers,& the children. The one of you is very cute!! Thank you for stopping by, happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteFields full of pumpkins and kids with their pumpkin finds just make me smile. As do sunflowers reaching high to the sky. Beautiful shots, Noel. Mahalo for sharing, and also for dropping by my blog earlier.
ReplyDeleteAloha,
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Love the pumpkin patch photo at the top. Funny but my reaction when I first saw it was "I didn't know there were pumpkin patches in Hawaii"... so am glad you provided commentary and explanation in your entry. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful collection for orange. I'd like to visit that pumpkin patch. The silly frame is funny!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful array of photos, a beautiful harvest. Happy Halloween, my friend.
ReplyDeleteGreat post - at first I thought - they have pumpkins and sunflowers in Hawaii? Then I see it is CA!
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