A-Maze-ing

CHILDREN OF THE CORN: We try to make it a point to make it to a local corn maze every fall. Today, that trip coincided with Annabelle's birthday!

We knew we were getting close to the farm when we saw this tractor and its trailers!

 This year there were two mazes at Carpinito's, a farm in Kent, Washington. 

 We took on the triceratops first. 

Weather wise, today's trip was the nicest we've ever had for corn maze day. It was mostly sunny skies and about 60 degrees this morning!

 The kids took turns leading us through the maze. We hit all of the marks along the way with only a couple of minor wrong turns.

 The corn the maze was made from was remarkably robust.

 I enjoyed checking out all of the silk - and other stuff - growing on it.

 The maze was home to a number of insects.

 The attraction also has a fantastic farm market. Naturally, we checked out their pumpkin offerings.

 Warts and all, they had some beauties.

 We spied piles of ghost pumpkins. It kind of looked like popcorn to me.

 And there were colorful gourds.

 They even had Pokemon pumpkins. (Gotta carve them all?)

GRATUITOUS: A beauty shot of Rainier from a couple of sunsets ago.

Rainier is not out every day, but when it is, oh boy!

The view out of our living room window is phenomenal!