Cache Valley Pumpkin Walk
Oct 24th, 2009 by tommy
Last night my family and I paid a visit to the annual Pumpkin Walk in Hyde Park, Utah. And, as usual, the kids (and the parents) had a great time.
The Pumpkin Walk is sponsored each year by local residents and businesses. It is held in a park with a horseshoe shaped path that winds around the approximately half acre location. All along the path are carved pumpkins on bales of straw. On the outer side of the path are displays using pumpkins.
All of the displays have themes. For example, one had several life-sized soldier mannequins in camouflage gear. Another display was of a scene from a Micheal Jackson video. All of the characters were of equal size to an average man. Now, making life size figures from clothes and stuffing them with batting or even plastic bags is not hard. The real excitement of the pumpkin walk is that all of the heads are, of course, pumpkins. The pumpkin heads are carved, shaped, and mostly painted to look real. It’s obvious some displays employed more artistic talent than others, but each still had it’s own special qualities.
My personal favorite display is shown below. I’ll let the pictures do the explaining. Needless to say, this display used a lot of pumpkins and, if you look close enough, some oversize zucchini!
These people put a lot of work and a lot of pumpkins into this design. It’s hard to see in these images, but they even used hosta leaves as the bottom leaves on the cabbage.
If you live in the Cache Valley area of Utah or Idaho or even the surrounding regions, the Pumpkin Walk is only open through next Tuesday, October 27. Don’t worry if you miss it this year, it will be there again next October with new pumpkin displays to welcome in the Halloween season.
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Happy Gardening!
Tommy
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