The View from the Pumpkin Patch

 

 Boy and girl visit pumpkin patch.

 

(Mom is the chauffeur.)

 

Boy and girl immediately (if not predictably) see one pumpkin they both want.

 

Boy and girl reluctantly agree to see the rest of the selection.

Mom sees all kinds of pumpkins.

 

Striped pumpkins.

 

Bumpy pumpkins.

 

Pumpkins with (not terribly) creepy spiders.

 

Girl sees pristine pumpkin.  Girl is smitten.

 

Boy sees huge pumpkin requiring display of muscle.  Boy is sold.

 

Argument Dilemma solved.  Happily.

 

Girl sees swing.  Girl drops pumpkin.

 

Girls are never too old for swings.

 

Mom sees photo experiment in the making.

 

Mom bribes coaxes boy and girl.

Photo 52 October bonus:  Trick 
(Composite image.  Rush job.  But hey.)

All return home satisfied.

The end.

Treat

Photo 52, Week 43:  Treat

I made a monster cookie treat for my kids who are headed off on a youth retreat this weekend.

Both of them.  Gone.

So inexperienced am I at sending my kids away
that this morning I never even THOUGHT about gathering Bethany's emergency meds to have ready.
After documenting about them extensively on the permission forms only a few days ago.  Mom fail.
(Well, except for the making cookies part.)

 The situation was quickly remedied.  Thankfully.

So now Mom and Dad get a date night.  Bonus treat!

While we are on the topic of treats,

Jack Frost came for a visit this week.

He has a way of making things so crisp

and sparkly.

Getting out and noticing before it all burned off for the day was truly a treat.

I am looking forward to trying a trick for next week.  I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve:

Spooky Light Painting
(I was slightly less than successful with this one last year),

 or Ghostly Composites.  

Which would you choose?

Photo 52 Fall Photo Walk

Fall in the Twin Cities is glorious.
It seemed imperative that we organize a photo walk for Photo 52.
Fall is a busy season, but how could we not find a way?

Thankfully Heather is game to try anything.  AND she knows her way around town.

So she suggested St. Anthony Main, with the famous Stone Arch Bridge.
We met for lunch, and braved the rain afterward.

Our cameras may or may not have gotten a little soggy.

But that didn't dampen our spirits!

The sun would prevail, after all.

It was a popular place that day.

I love the fact that so many in our group ventured out on this unlikely day.

Many discovered something new about our city.

Hopefully some discovered a new thing or two about photography.

You know what I most often discover?

The creativity of God,

and the resourcefulness of people.

I love that.  

Why do I do Photo 52?

In hopes that people will discover the beauty of creation

and love the Creator more.

Photography is so therapeutic, 

but the power is in discovering what has been there all along.