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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World Bee Day
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National Napping Day
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Bellissima!
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Keep calm and drive on (slowly)
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Happy Holi!
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Happy World Meteorological Day
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Irohazaka Road in fall, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan
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