{"id":11271,"date":"2015-10-25T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11271"},"modified":"2015-10-25T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T14:05:54","slug":"photos-of-the-day-pumpkin-picking-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/photos-of-the-day-pumpkin-picking-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo(s) of the day: Pumpkin picking 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">E<\/span>ver since we moved to Manotick, one of our favourite family traditions has been our autumn trip to Miller&#8217;s Farm to pick our Halloween pumpkins. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s the October light or the fact that the boys genuinely love the excursion, but there are always fun photos to be found.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like this one: which one is the jack-o-lantern with the gap-toothed smile?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22449163362\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/592\/22449163362_eee6fa8662_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22462504115\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/673\/22462504115_8d359a0321_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21839790044\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5733\/21839790044_16feeb4118_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s almost as tall as his dad, and can carry his own (ridiculously large) pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22275684009\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/717\/22275684009_b5eb233ea6_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still pretty patient about posing for me. And cute, to boot!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21841342963\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/677\/21841342963_6cbe0f1c65_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21841331703\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/669\/21841331703_1414fb1b35_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22462493035\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5775\/22462493035_49ed36a5f4_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We interrupt this post for a flashback to 2011:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6270388169\/\" title=\"302:365 The boys in the Pumpkin House\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6099\/6270388169_2af7b87157_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"302:365 The boys in the Pumpkin House\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my goodness! Just a few changes in four years, right? Sigh. Some things don&#8217;t change, though. The boys went to play parkour on the hay bales while I entertained myself taking photos of not-them with my fish-eye lens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21841330913\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/581\/21841330913_5a856b712d_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22449151152\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5775\/22449151152_5c73616843_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Pumpkin picking 2015-12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And since I&#8217;m searching the archives, here&#8217;s another pumpkin trio &#8212; from 2009!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/4024446610\/\" title=\"271:365 The cutest pumpkins in the patch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2508\/4024446610_ba1327e383_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"271:365 The cutest pumpkins in the patch\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to have such sweet boys to indulge me, for family traditions, and for this blog to archive my memories and share them with you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since we moved to Manotick, one of our favourite family traditions has been our autumn trip to Miller&#8217;s Farm to pick our Halloween pumpkins. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s the October light or the fact that the boys genuinely love the excursion, but there are always fun photos to be found. I particularly like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/photos-of-the-day-pumpkin-picking-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo(s) of the day: Pumpkin picking 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11273,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions\/11273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}