Day Two Hundred Sixty Eight 2010

Pumpkin Time!

For me, Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year--pumpkins and gourds, scarecrows and pumpkin people, Indian corn, candy corn, and leaves turning their true colors.

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"Back into your garden-beds!

Here come the holidays!

And woe to the golden pumpkin-heads

Attracting too much praise.

Hide behind the hoe, the plow,

Cling fast to the vine!

Those who come to praise you now

Will soon sit down to dine."

~~ Grace Cornell Tall

To Pumpkins at Pumpkin Time

Day Two Hundred Eighty Four

I got my pumpkin people out of the attic yesterday. It's just not October without them. I bought these at the Museum of Appalachia's homecoming several years ago, different years. The Museum of Appalachia is in Norris, Tennessee. They had their 30th annual homecoming this weekend--always in October. Wish I could have gone. Here is the link if you'd like to check it out sometime: http://www.museumofappalachia.org/