{"id":539,"date":"2012-10-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:48:11","slug":"mandarin-orange-monday-pumpkin-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Orange Monday &#8211; Pumpkin Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I had my day off Friday so among other things we loaded up and headed off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Carmichaels-Pumpkin-Patch\/142842227641\" target=\"_blank\">Carmichael&#8217;s Pumpkin Patch<\/a> in Bixby, a suburb of Tulsa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107384402\/\" title=\"Logan Heather Scarecrow by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Logan Heather Scarecrow\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107384402_4524540571-194x300.jpg\" width=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">SuperPizzaBoy and Sweetie, hanging with a scarecrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107371081\/\" title=\"Pumpkins 9 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pumpkins 9\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107371081_3c1318b467-226x300.jpg\" width=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The place was crawling with pumpkins and with munchkins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107371807\/\" title=\"Pumpkins 7 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pumpkins 7\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107371807_ecdb762798-230x300.jpg\" width=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I love Fall the sun is lower, the shadows are cooler, the colors are wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107397556\/\" title=\"19350003 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350003\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107397556_f3328408cd-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">SPB&#8217;s favorite is the Hay House. The kids go in one end and out the other, over and over and over. He&#8217;s a freshman in high school but he made several trips. Talk about hay fever afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107397098\/\" title=\"19350004 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350004\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107397098_a0fe9f24a8-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There is so much to see and so much to do at a good pumpkin patch. I can&#8217;t believe it is mostly free. I mean the pumpkins are not but what a picture taker&#8217;s paradise. (Note, I&#8217;m not a photographer, you say &#8220;yeah, no kidding Yogi&#8221;, &nbsp;I&#8217;m a picture take. I take pictures, photographers capture images.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107396684\/\" title=\"19350005 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350005\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107396684_bc9323205d-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107395382\/\" title=\"19350007 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350007\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107395382_00b182f668-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And critters, Carmichael&#8217;s has critters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107394956\/\" title=\"19350008 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350008\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107394956_6eae37058f-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Don&#8217;t you just love goats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107389646\/\" title=\"19350019 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"19350019\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107389646_083ebf8a65-300x199.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I love taking pictures of others capturing images. Pumpkin patches are happy places. It always seems like everybody is in a good mood and the kids don&#8217;t get overexcited. Even the staff seems to have lots of patience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8107383762\/\" title=\"Logan with Pumpkin 1 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Logan with Pumpkin 1\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8107383762_9303fae558-190x300.jpg\" width=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">SPB found his. Sweetie insists on stems for at least one. Why? Because she knows best that is why. Any other questions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8103994153\/\" title=\"Hey we have been to the #pumpkin_patch #tulsa by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey we have been to the #pumpkin_patch #tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8103994153_a3f0f3b798-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Something about pumpkins, and pictures of pumpkins, is cool!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/8104009618\/\" title=\"#pumpkins on the porch #tulsa by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"#pumpkins on the porch #tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/8104009618_d800386731-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here they are on the front porch. Ready for some smart aleck to smash!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Have you been to a pumpkin patch this year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorikart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mandarin Orange Monday<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my day off Friday so among other things we loaded up and headed off to Carmichael&#8217;s Pumpkin Patch in Bixby, a suburb of Tulsa. SuperPizzaBoy and Sweetie, hanging with a scarecrow. The place was crawling with pumpkins and with munchkins. I love Fall the sun is lower, the shadows are cooler, the colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[537,489,309,550,70,540,288,287,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn","category-bixby","category-fall","category-mandarin-orange-monday","category-oklahoma","category-orange","category-pumpkin-patches","category-pumpkins","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}