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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National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Strolling across the Red Lagoon
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All Rhodes lead to the beach
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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Honoring our fallen heroes
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Land of the midnight sun
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A river on the tundra
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The Kelpies statues in Falkirk, Scotland
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Groundhog Day
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Seitan Limania Beach, Crete
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Marine Day in Japan
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Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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New beginnings
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Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton, Utah
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200th anniversary of Brazilian independence
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Nesting season for the leatherbacks
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Where the wildflowers grow
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Congratulations, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates!
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