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
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Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Happy Halloween!
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Happy New Year! (Again!)
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Lighting it up for Vivid Sydney
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International Geodiversity Day
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Beech trees and wild anemones, Jutland, Denmark
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Mediterranean red sea stars
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It’s showtime for a precious crop
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Celebrating Festivus
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Beethoven s 250th
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Celebrating sea otters
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Waiting for the perfect shot
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Merry Christmas!
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Celebrating Helsinki’s birthday at the Kiasma Museum
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For the love of bikes
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At the shore of an inland sea
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Here s looking at you
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Yi Peng lantern festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Groundhog Day arrives—beyond a shadow of a doubt
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Crimson-rumped toucanet in the Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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Spot on for International Cat Day
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Best fronds forever
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