Real autumn arrived this weekend with a whoosh of wind,
pelting rain squalls and an overnight drop in temperature to the point the heat
kicked on. Thankfully, the waterworks
let up for the field trip we’d planned Saturday, a quick visit with the busy-attending-school-and-working-daughter,
followed by a trip to the Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular at the Roger Williams Zoo, in
Providence, RI. Said industrious daughter
took a break to scope it out with a friend last week.
Her pictures were so stunning, my husband and I decided to give it a go.
The two of us don’t often do big crowds or tourist-type
attractions, but this one made it to the exception list. For anyone who has been in previous years, you’ll
be happy to know that they organized it differently, so weekends aren't the mad-house they were apparently, in the past. Crowded? Yes. But controlled, and worth the
bit of patience required to traipse the zoo grounds in the dark, to view thousands of pumpkins, carved and painted into
pure art.
