Halloween – Travels With Tricia

Perusing the Pumpkin Patch

After ten years of life abroad sans an authentic jack o’lantern, I was delighted to awaken my Halloween spirit by visiting a veritable American pumpkin patch last autumn, following a splendid long weekend in Napa Valley. The California farm’s scruffy scarecrows, colorful gourds, and pumpkins transformed into storybook characters brought to mind some of my favorite HalloweenContinue reading “Perusing the Pumpkin Patch”

Pumpkins, Proceratosaurus, and a Palace: Perusing the World’s Largest Pumpkin Festival

The scene is like something out of a quirky fairy tale with elements like an elegant 18th-century Baroque palace, dinosaurs fashioned out of more than 450,000 pumpkins, squash and gourds, and Rapunzel’s braid dangling from a cobbled tower… This unlikely trio came together at the world’s largest pumpkin festival, held on the grounds of theContinue reading “Pumpkins, Proceratosaurus, and a Palace: Perusing the World’s Largest Pumpkin Festival”