Pumpkins are not a favorite food of mine and I'm not enticed by the various "pumpkin spice" flavoring being offered everywhere from Starbucks to Dunkin' Donuts. Nor am I a holiday fan of pumpkin pie. I do love their brilliant color and enjoy driving past that church all of October.
There are now white pumpkins for sale in the grocery stores. They seem like freaks of nature, possibly grown so people can paint extravagant faces on them. Or maybe just "because it can be done." We never stop tinkering with nature. I can't help remembering the first line of a James Whitcomb Riley poem: "When the frost in on the pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock..." Once America's most quoted poet, (early 20th century) now forgotten. A Hoosier, so we read him in school back home in Indiana. I find it satisfying to think about how quickly hacks are forgotten.
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Apparently there are blue pumpkins which are put on porches to signal to trick or treaters that the house has treats like vampire teeth and spider rings instead of treats which may contain allergens.
Blue! What next? I think the white ones are pretty but they just don't say Halloween to me.
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