Pumpkin Patch..

 What a perfect fall weekend.   My husband and I have always wanted to go to the Spearfish corn maze and pumpkin patch.  The weather was wonderful, so we went. 

Just as we got there a huge flock of cranes flew over. 

Thanks to my expert guiding skills, we made it through the corn maze easy peasy.

The pumpkin patch was wonderful and huge.   They had every type of pumpkin you could imagine. 

I have never seen such an array of pumpkins.

They turned old silos into shops.

The corn maze covered several acres.

Besides all of the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch, they had the nicest ones set aside. 

Also this weekend my husband and I took several fall strolls.  We had a competition as to who could find the prettiest leaves.  There were no losers.

I had this bird make a quick appearance.  It may be a Clark's Nutcracker, but I am uncertain.   It flew in, attacked the chipmunk hiding in the rocks, and flew off.  Never to be seen again. 

It wasn't our only visitor this weekend.  I caught this packrat in the shed.  I knew something had taken up residence in there and it was either a packrat or a skunk.  Lucky for me when I opened the shed door, it wasn't a skunk.  When we went to release him (I sure hope it was a him) several miles away. He ran out of the trap, turned around, and ran right towards us. Then jumped a foot in the air. You have never seen two people scatter so fast.  I'm still laughing. 

That was our adventures for the week.  I won't lie, I may have caught my husband's pumpkin bug.  Have you ever been to a corn maze or perused a pumpkin patch?