This year we started to see pumpkins everywhere on our trip
out to the Maritimes. We drove to Ottawa on September 10,
and people were decorating with pumpkins.
The same was true in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Delightful arrangements of pumpkins everywhere.
So today, because it's Thanksgiving weekend, we got some
pumpkins for the front steps. This painting is of a pumpkin
farm we used to visit when our children were young. This
is what I wrote about it in an earlier blog.
"This work is about a farmhouse we used to visit heading north
on Dufferin Street, in King City. It had a big pumpkin patch.
When the boys were little we used to go there, and walk through
the fields selecting the best pumpkins for our Thanksgiving.
We used them for decoration, and also Steven used to make
the best pumpkin pie in in the world. Usually we made another
trip to get the pumpkins for Halloween, because Thanksgiving
is almost three weeks before Halloween and the squirrels
would’ve devoured the ones decorating our front steps by then.
I don’t know where we'd go now to find a pumpkin patch.
That corner in King City has been built up with malls, and
gas stations and all kinds of modern conveniences. And the
farm is gone. So I’m so glad that we got to be there while
it was still in operation. The whole idea of getting pumpkins
to decorate for Thanksgiving seemed so special then, because
we picked them where they were growing, and Thanksgiving
is all about being grateful for the harvest."
Happy Thanksgiving!
Have a loving your life day!
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