Sauvie island was
the place to get
pumpkins for
Halloween when I was a
wee sprout. My
parent's rule was, you could have any pumpkin you
wanted, just as long as you could
bring it back to the car yourself. I found you could
snag a really huge pumpkin just as long as it was round enough to
roll but then there was always the
lifting it into the
back of the car.
The last time I was at Sauvie island I was biking with my girlfriend. As we were finishing our loop of the island we saw a family sneaking across a field to our left, taking a few heads of cabbage or lettuce. We looked at each other and were silent just the whisper of our tires on the blacktop. Another family, but sadly, much different memories.