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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Crown Fountain by Jume Plensa at Millennium Park in Chicago
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The aftermath of a meteorite
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Clark Range, Yosemite National Park, California
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First day of autumn
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Milky Way over Zabriskie Point, California
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Islands of the Salish Sea
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A Latino art exhibition in Denver
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An ice cap-puccino
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Swinging into International Jazz Day
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Anniversary of Bryce Canyon National Park
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Siblings Day
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Amphitheatre of El Jem, Tunisia
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Dyavolski Most
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A peak in the clouds
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Ruins of a royal temple
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Happy Panda Day!
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This reef is nowhere near the sea…
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Spring comes to the Diablo foothills
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Summer solstice
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Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
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Saskatchewan s spookier side
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Noctilucent clouds
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Black History Month
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World Art Day
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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
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Miravet, Catalonia, Spain
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High above the reef
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Let s ride! It s Roller Coaster Day
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Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi, China
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I ll call for pen and ink
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