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McCall's Pumpkin Patch October 2014

McCall's Pumpkin Patch and corn maze

 

McCall Land & Cattle Co., is located in Moriarty, NM on 320 acres. It is owned and operated by Kevin and Kirsten McCall and their two children Morgan and Caleb.

 

Kevin farms about 300 acres of alfalfa hay, grass hay, oats, corn &, of course, pumpkins. In 1998 Kevin invited his first school groups out to the farm for field trips, hoping to give kids a taste of what farm life is like during harvest season.

 

A corn maze or maize maze is a maze cut out of a corn field. The first corn maze was in Annville, Pennsylvania. Corn mazes have become popular tourist attractions in North America, and are a way for farms to create tourist income. Many are based on artistic designs such as characters from movies. Corn mazes appear in many different designs. Some mazes are even created to tell stories or to portray a particular theme. Most have a path, which goes all around the whole pattern, either to end in the middle or to come back out again. In the United Kingdom, they are known as maize mazes ("corn" in British English is generally taken to refer to wheat), and are especially popular with farms in the east of England. These mazes are normally combined with other farm attractions of interest to families and day trippers. Some of these attractions include hay rides, a petting zoo, play areas for children, and picnic areas. Each year a few of the mazes are featured in national newspapers and TV. In the U.S., corn mazes typically are cut down circa the first week of November.

 

Use red/blue glasses for best effect.

 

Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color-coded" "anaglyph glasses", each of the two images reaches one eye, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image.

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Uploaded on October 20, 2014