Avoiding the Pumpkin Patch

Although we live close to the DFW metropolitan area the little town where we live is in a still very countrified area. Usually the roads around us are fairly quiet and not much traffic. That changes at this time of the year because in a few places close to where we have to drive to get to the stores, we pass a couple of pumpkin patches. These events are highly publicized and are very popular.The crowds start forming especially at the weekends .

The fields have masses of brightly colored pumpkins covering the fields , the hay bales are set up for the kids to jump on and the annual visit begins. 

So at the traffic lights where the fields are, the lines get longer and longer and you wait to cross behind cars with mums with 3 or 4 kids bouncing about as they go to visit. Whether they go to buy pumpkins or to take photos or just to have fun I don't know but it seems a lovely thing to do. They all seem to have a great time.

Makes you wish your grand kids were young again.