These pumpkins came straight from our backyard! Planted as seeds back in the spring, we wondered if the showy, fast-growing vine would ever produce fruit. But then slowly, baby bumps began to grow from flowers and develop into beautiful, orange pumpkins.

Jake, our resident horticulturist, was eager to harvest them this afternoon, so out he went with a knife to cut the pumpkins from the vine…it reminded me of cutting the umbilical cord from a newborn baby.

He washed those pumpkins off.

And now they’re happily displayed on the deck.