I love pumpkins and gourds. They must be the most cheerful things on Earth. Fields of soybeans lit up by sunset aren’t bad, either. John and I made a quick trip out to Wiltse’s in Maple Park this afternoon to begin our pumpkin shopping. (Notice, I said begin pumpkin shopping…) We met some cute little goats with deliciously soft wool, too.
But the pumpkins… I am a pumpkin addict. I need pumpkins. LOTS of them. In all shapes, colors, and sizes. I like little ones, big ones, striped, spotted, mottled, and bumpy. Smooth, ghostly gray, white, orange. Gourds of all shapes and sizes. I like them piled up, stacked on top of one another, in a row, on the porch, in my office, on the table. I like them in the sun, tucked among plants, in a pile over the well head, on the kitchen counter, the patio wall. Happiness is a sun warmed pumpkin. We started our shopping today…. two more weeks until Halloween… Who KNOWS how many pumpkins I will have by then? And a goat? Maybe??
Mental Farmer 
10/16/2011 at 10:41 pm
I love pumpkins too! Great pictures!
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10/17/2011 at 7:22 am
All these years I’ve known you and I never knew about your thing for pumpkins…or gourds. I don’t know that I’ve ever bought a halloween pumpkin but I just might do so this year in honor of the Mental Farmer!
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10/17/2011 at 10:11 am
Great Pictures. Thank you for sharing.
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10/17/2011 at 6:36 pm
Yes, Mary! More, more, more pumpkins! Keep sending us lovely images, as we need all we can get. Love, Dorothy Matilda Eubanks Ward
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10/17/2011 at 8:29 pm
I love you, Mama!
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10/17/2011 at 8:37 pm
I love your new header and colors! Oh happy Fall!
And the pumpkins…..I feel the same way about the beauties.
Some day I will have a pumpkin patch to tend.
Until then, I’ll support those farmers who haul them from the fields
and give them homes with me:)
love your pics….thanks for the share,
Jen
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