OK, I know this isn't very exciting. Now that I think about it, none of what I put on my website is very exciting. Some of it is somewhat exciting, for me anyway, but most of it is just stuff that we do. This page isn't about something we did, it's about a big pumpkin patch in the middle of Encinitas.

I don't know about you, but when I think of pumpkins growing I picture a rural farm, somewhere in New England maybe, the leaves are turning colors, there's a chill in the air, and an old church with a white steeple in the background. Perhaps the remnants of last summer's scarecrow dangle from a wooden post in the middle of the picked-over garden. The big bright orange pumpkins are the year's last bit of color on the ground and Halloween is around the corner.

Now imagine cruising down the southern California coast on a warm august afternoon, the Pacific Ocean sparkling on your left as you approach Swami's, the surf breaking along the point, the sea gulls squawking overhead, then you look to your right and see the biggest, orange-est, patch of soon-to-be jack-o-lanterns you've ever seen. What the heck?

So I took some photos.

Actually, we walked here from our house. It's only  half-mile or so. Then we crossed the train tracks, illegally of course, and went down the the beach at Swami's. Speaking of the train tracks, you can see the Coaster, our local commuter train, in one of the above photos. Can you spot it?

The tide was out so we walked north along the shore to Moonlight Beach, then we went home, That was plenty of excitement for one day.