Pumpkin Palooza 2013 -- Suzie's at Sunset

Flo wanted me to take a picture of this giant pumpkin at Martin's grocery store's grand opening near our house. That's a big one!

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

- Robert Browning

Pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins.......

Pumpkin

Painted pumpkins.

(c) 2013 Denise Panyik-Dale

Huge pumpkins

This is the pumpkin that I won at Spooner Farm. That's my cellphone there for scale reference. I've been so exhausted this week that I haven't had a chance to carve it yet, and Halloween is only a couple of days away. Guess I should get on it soon. :P

Dad works on de-gutting his pumpkin

Mini pumpkins

15th Street, NW

DCist - November 6, 2015: "November Theater Guide: Hell Is Pumpkin Spice Everything"

In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.

Farm market and corn maze on the Old Mission Peninsula, Michigan

www.oldmission.com/

Meet my two-and-a-half year-old grandson, John, on a recent visit to a local pumpkin patch sporting his brand new straw hat.

In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.

Pumpkin Palooza 2013 -- Suzie's at Sunset

Rachel Posing in the pumkins still.

Munchkins

Very yummy, not too sweet, just the right amount of pumpkin. From the Smitten Kitchen blog: smittenkitchen.com/2007/10/pumpkin-bread-pudding/

Shot from a pumpkin farm on highway 53 a few miles outside of Dahlonega.

Pumpkin Spice Cheerios, pics by Mike Mozart of instagram.com/MikeMozart

Elkin posed very well (unusual) on a little Halloween display at the Emporia zoo. Isn't he the cutest kid ever?!

Cinderella pumpkins have a vivid, red-orange, hard exterior and a somewhat flattened shape with deep, characteristic lobes.