A manly man carried a tiny pumpkin to the register at the Pumpkin Patch at Boa Vista Orchards. Regardless the size of the pumpkin, guys, it’s what you do for your wife and child when they’ve picked the perfect pumpkin.
It’s a ritual that plays out daily during autumn in the Sierra foothills. Each generation of dads (and moms) gets to carry the pumpkin to the register.
Autumn is about such earthly rituals and few places enact them quite as colorfully and tastefully than Camino’s Apple Hill.
There, irresistible apple donuts, apple pies, apple ciders, apple turnovers, apple sauce, apple strudel, and – of course – just-picked apples are on display until the Christmas Tree farms take over.
Then, another ritual occurs … cutting the Christmas tree.
