Oh man! What a gorgeous weekend it was! Mostly clear skies. Sunny. Warm. And tons of fall colors everywhere. It totally made up for the mostly crappy weather during the week. Of course, the weather is back to being overcast again, but I don’t mind so much since I’m sitting in a cube all day.
The beautiful weekend weather couldn’t have been timed better either. Saturday was the monthly Seattle Flickr Meetup day, and our destination this time around was Spooner Farm out in Puyallup. The farm featured a giant corn maze, u-pick pumpkin patches, farm animals, and pumpkin sling-shots. I was really worried that it would rain and be very muddy out there, but that wasn’t the case. It was just simply gorgeous out there. There was a lot of great light for photography, not to mention all the cool possibilities involving pumpkins, corn stalks, and other farm-related goodness.
My favorite part of the day was the pumpkin sling-shot. For $1 you get 3 small pumpkins (from baseball- to softball-sized) that you can sling-shot out to several targets setup in a field. If you hit one the targets on the fly, you win a giant pumpkin. I dropped $3 on 9 shots, and, on my 8th shot, I nailed the target dead on. I got to put my name up on the winner’s whiteboard, and I got my choice of giant pumpkins. There were several insanely huge pumpkins there, but most of them were either too deformed to be of any use or they were just simply too big for me to carry. I ended up choosing one that could stand upright on its own and that I could carry up 3 flights of stairs to my apartment. Now I just need to figure out how I’m going to carve it.
You can check out my photos from the day in my Flickr photostream. Or you can just browse through them using that giant Flash widget at the top courtesy of PictoBrowser, which, by the way, is a really cool app that my buddy Jed’s co-worker made. It’s quite slick.
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