Ah, the perennial pumpkin patch. You might think the round orange gourds in today"s photo are vegetables, but botanists say pumpkins are actually the fruit of pumpkin vines. They"re considered fruit because pumpkins contain seeds and grow from the same part of the plant that produces flowers. And now, as Halloween nears, pumpkins are ripe for picking and carving into spooky jack-o"-lanterns.
A most sincere pumpkin patch
Today in History
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Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, England
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Mountain mists over Bavaria
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Lake Bled, Slovenia
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International Day for Biosphere Reserves
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Siblings Day
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World Population Day
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We re gonna need a bigger birdhouse
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And they’re off!
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Mount Rainier National Park
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It’s Draw a Bird Day
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The Door County Coastal Byway in Wisconsin
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International Whale Shark Day
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International Rock Day
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White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
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Village of Saranac Lake, New York
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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American robin
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Spring blooms in the Netherlands
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Maritime forest in Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
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Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii
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Into the woods
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The village of Castelluccio above the Piano Grande, Umbria, Italy
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Mount Pico, Portugal
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Saskatchewan s spookier side
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Making it work—in Norway
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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
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King of the dinosaurs
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World Octopus Day
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Fibonacci Day
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Dance of the egret
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