Smell My Feet

Trick-or-treat! It's Halloween, which means pumpkins and sugar highs. And discount candy tomorrow.

Trick-or-treating is different here in the city, kids just wander through the neighborhoods, going up to the houses with the porch lights on. In rural southeastern Kentucky where I grew up, the population density was a wee bit less, so we had to hop in a car to go ring doorbells and demand candy.

Another facet of city living is paying a visit to one of the farms on the periphery of the city in the run up to Halloween. Each autumn they transform into mini-fall festivals with pumpkins, hayrides, food and crafts.

This year took me out to Pendleton Farms on the southwestern edge of Jefferson County. They'd been one of the regular vendors at the community market I've been documenting, finally took them up on their offer to come check out the place.

They were having a car show the day I made the trip out, but it was kind of a sideshow to everything else going on at the farm. The hayride was the main attraction, but most of the folks from the community market had set up shop along with some other local artists and food trucks.

Spent a couple hours shooting and just hanging out and taking it all in. May or may not have bought a giant pot of mums and went on a hayride.

Okay, definitely went on a hayride. Didn't realize when I signed up for it that it would pause back in the fields and let all the critters come up for pets and snacks. Wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth, though. \

So what sort of fall traditions do you have in your neck of the woods?