It's the Great Pumpkin Photo Contest!

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I am so much a product of this country.
Looking at Jester's pics my first reaction was, "Ha! Look at those pumpkins just lying around in a field, how funny!"

I don't think we grow pumpkins here - or if we do I have never seen them growing. I don't know what I expected!

SG, pumpkins grow on trees. In America, the custom, after the Pupmkins have been harvested from the pumpkin orchard, is to then put them in a cleared field for people to have 'pumpkin hunts' on. it's deemed too dangerous for anyone other than professionals with the proper equipment to pick them from the trees. they're so heavy, and it's so easy to hurt your back doing it. sadly, another product of our litigous society. I used to love pumpkin picking when i was a lad.