No one is in costume.

There are no computer-generated special effects.

Just cows, horses, goats, pigs, chickens, one very friendly kitten and hundreds of pumpkins.

Celina’s Big Orange Pumpkin Farm is a place for good, simple family fun. It’s the perfect place to spend an October afternoon.

Situated on a large farm on County Road 126 between U.S. Highway 380 and Farm-to-Market Road 455, the Big Orange Pumpkin Farm has become a very popular attraction over the last three years.

Owners Rick and Kim Kimbrell have created a place where city dwellers can see what it’s like to be on a farm just for a little while.

Admission is $4 for everyone except for children under 2 years old. They get in for free.

Admission price includes a cup of feed for the animals, a medium-size pumpkin and a hayride or two.

Visitors may choose a pumpkin from flatbeds holding hundreds of the autumn squash or they can walk out to the pumpkin patch and pick their own. There are a variety of white pumpkins for those who don’t fancy orange pumpkins.

A favorite activity is feeding the farm animals that are all very friendly and get even friendlier when approached by a human holding a cup of feed.

A tractor tows several wagons around the property about once every 20 minutes. The Kimbrell’s 6-year-old son, Coyt, and his pals like to race the hay wagon on their bikes.

There is a hay bale and tin tunnel to climb through and over, a giant hay bale spider and small corral with hay bale steers if children get bored with picking pumpkins.

There also is a lighted playing field for the peewee football team Rick Kimbrell coaches. The field was a joint project with other football dads.

He saw a similar place in Kansas and decided he could do the same thing.

Celina’s Big Orange Pumpkin Farm is only opened during October. The rest of the time it is available for private parties.

On weekends in October, Kimbrell cooks hot dogs and gives them away. Drinks and chips are for sale.

For a dollar or two extra visitors can take away a larger pumpkin.

"There are no witches or goblins here," said Kimbrell. "Just pumpkins."

He wants people to know that the farm is there and waiting for visitors.

Kimbrell also works as a national brand manager for an agricultural chemical company. He hopes eventually to have the farm open for more than October.

The Celina Big Orange Pumpkin Farm is a great outing for children, but it also makes an ideal mini getaway.

There is not a computer in sight.

For more information on the pumpkin farm, call 972.382.4465.