Ah, the perennial pumpkin patch. You might think the round orange gourds in today"s photo are vegetables, but botanists say pumpkins are actually the fruit of pumpkin vines. They"re considered fruit because pumpkins contain seeds and grow from the same part of the plant that produces flowers. And now, as Halloween nears, pumpkins are ripe for picking and carving into spooky jack-o"-lanterns.
A most sincere pumpkin patch
Today in History
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The Hermitage of Santa Justa
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World Environment Day
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Black History Month
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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Happy Juneteenth!
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Winter at Valley Forge
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Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
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World Wildlife Day
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The fishing village of Reine, Norway
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Flower of Life symbol drawn in snow
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Pandas pucker up for International Kissing Day
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Kagami-ike, Nagano, Japan
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Earth seen from the International Space Station
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Giving Tuesday
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Morocco in bloom
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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2022 FIFA World Cup
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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Badlands National Parks 45th anniversary
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Summer solstice
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A circular celebration
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Life in the slow lane
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National Frog Month
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