Sauvie Island One of the Best Days of Fall

Yesterday, Mr. I and I biked Sauvie Island which is just outside of Portland along the Columbia River. The bike loop the is a "must do" ride for the Fall. When you cross the little bridge to Sauvie Island, the bridge looks down on the most prolific, beautiful pumkin patches you have ever seen. It is instant "Fall".

Ok this view is about 100 feet in the air above the fields. These pumpkins are HUGE. All individually cut and displayed in the field. Man must be a lot of work. The color of the pumpkins is much brighter orange but the day was so bright and beautiful it kind of washed out the pumpkins. But aren't they lovely?

So we biked and picnicked. There is a bird refuge that we picnicked at that was amazing to watch thousands of birds, ducks, geese, swans, herons, cranes all fly into their wintering grounds. You wouldn't believe the sound. But the best was yet to come.....
We went to the Pumpkin Patch, which we haven't done since Andrew was little. The Pumpkin Patch is a farm on the island that has a HUGE barn full of veggies and fruit. A huge barn of animals to see. 2 complicated Corn Mazes, one haunted one not. It has a huge field of flowers to U-Cut (My personal favorite), free hayrides a gift store, a cute cow train that hauls the kids around the farm. Little Booths with food, elephant ears burgers etc. Plain and simple fun fun fun.

This huge flower field had these beautiful Zinnias and Sunflowers, Bachelor Buttons, Snapdragons

It is so much fun to walk through a field with flowers towering over you picking each flower of your choosing...Ahhhhhh

Just for perspective at how huge these zucchini were, that green bell pepper was the size of my hand

Huge red chili bunches

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I ended up with 2 sugar pumpkins, which will be pumpkin pie in a couple of weeks

Our Goodies

apples of the trees that you can see out the back of the barn

Shot of pumpkins from the HayRide

 Ok so the shots below are of the Zinnas once I got them home. They make me cry they are so pretty.

Oh Man, can you believe this color?

Now that's a good use of a vehicle!

So in closing, it was the perfect fall day. Get out there if you get a chance with the last few decent weather days. My favorite season.

This was our memento of the day, in honor of the birds and a toast to us, Mr. I and I. Thanks to him we are a pair.

 Muah! Mamabus