At the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium on Tuesday. Just the two of us.
Spoiler alert: if you are going and want to guess the weight of these enormous pumpkin specimens don’t look as I have the answers shown in the photos below the pumpkins.
I was trying to envision how these huge pumpkins were transported and installed.
There are signs Do not Touch or Climb
The animals were great but my grandson Ananda loved seeing all the Mighty Machines where construction workers were working in the zoo.
There she was getting gas at Sheetz and look what pulled up. A load of pumpkins! .
A visit with Laura and Roy to Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus Ohio.
Laura shared her photos of the Westerville, Ohio Great Pumpkin Glow.
She and James and Charlie drove through the nighttime Halloween display.
And those dinosaurs are made out of pumpkins!
My sister sent me this still life after her trip to Union Square Farmers’ Market, NYC.
The little yellow marshmallow chicks wrapped in cellophane showed up in 1953. They used to appear on store shelves at Easter time. Now you can get them year round in other holiday shapes. Information on the history and detailed categories such as “alleged indestructibility“ and Peeps “Recipes” at Wikipedia. There are contests and ingredients listed at that link, too. Yes, people microwave Peeps. That’s a lot of food color, isn’t it? Perhaps you ate them as a child but wouldn’t think of biting off a head of one now.
Here’s the question. Would you eat one? And if you did, would you want the Peep stale or fresh?
There are “Peeps haters” in the world-Julie Bosman wrote in a 2012 article in the New York Times. She states that Peeps are “polarizing”
Something about Peeps must intrigue me as here are two previous blog posts about them
Linea Verde- Green Market
Bloomfield neighborhood on Liberty Avenue.
Steve and I were on our way to dinner and so that’s why you see the outdoor pumpkin display going both directions.
After dinner we went inside and bought pizzelles. Anise flavored.
I Had to ask about the roots in the first photo-turmeric!
Friday night in Laura and James’ living room, I was telling them what the weekly photo challenge was.
Laura said, “I have pumpkins on the front porch and Christmas decorations in a box.” So I went out onto the front porch but when I saw the neighbor’s Christmas lights and a mini-bus drove by, I knew I had the shot for the Change of Seasons challenge.
Change of Seasons. And the temperature is 50 degrees making it feel like a Spring evening.
