At the farmer’s market, I picked up two kinds of apples (the developer of one was there at the time, which was interesting), local honey, green beans, a couple of different loaves of artisanal bread, bitter melon, and hot peppers. Then I bought these three handsome pumpkins and set off walking the five blocks to my car. It must have been humorous if there were any watchers. If there were any watchers, however, then shame on them for not coming to help me.
Three pumpkins were not enough, though, so the kids went out and bought a couple more. This is the Garden of Eden, a strange travelling nursery that sets up at various times during the year in the parking lot of a local movie theater. We can get plant starts there in the spring, pumpkins and mums in the fall, and Christmas trees in their season.
With the proper seasonal sustenance, carving ensued.
We had free-form large-knife carvers, pattern and special tools users, cutter-and-mallet users, and paring-knife users.
My husband wanted to leave the green one uncarved and bake it instead, on the grounds that it smelled good and could be eaten.
His pleas went unheard.
And we ended up with a nice group of Jack-o-Lanterns on our porch.
Perhaps you can see their spooky candlelit grins.
Wonderfully scary, especially bottom-right monster. We don’t do pumpkins over here, Halloween never really caught on properly in NZ.
very nicely done…
A+.
I really like the top middle outline…
Hehehe.. pun’kins!
Three pumpkins for five blocks!!! Acckkk! I’d of ended up with a cracked pumpkin I’m sure!!! Looks like y’all did a fabulous job with the carvings! Baking the green pumpkin sounds yummy though! Makes me wanna get a few tomorrow when we go shopping! Yummmm!
What a fun time. We went to the garden center and the childrens hospital had a donate and build a scarecrow area. It was a hoot to see the creations. If we had somewhere to put one I would have done it but well make a donation anyway. That’s what living in an apt is like. We almost bought these green man ceramic eyes, nose and mouth to put on the tree in the complex but figured someone might take off with it. Besides it might freak out one of the old ladies teetering around with a cocktail in her hand. LOL. Isn’t fall wonderful! Can’t wait till our fests start happening .
Those look great!!!!