Bates Pumpkin Farm

Every fall Bates goes from "nut farm" to "pumpkin patch." Despite the fall atmosphere, it was over 90 degrees in Escondido! Hence Dillon's ruddy farmhand cheeks.

I don't take the sun on my face.

The first of many yearly pumpkin family portraits.

I give you a cornstalk hat, daddy.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin...

Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Dillon agrees!