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Halloween

I was driving along on the way to my daughter's house when I spied this display.

 From a distance, I thought I was seeing those round hay bales that someone had painted orange.  But, no, could not be because they were glowing.  As I got closer,  I could not believe I was seeing actual pumpkins.  I stopped, turned around and went back to take these pictures.


Now was it

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
had a wife and couldn't feed her.
Put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her very well.

Comments

  1. TaborNovember 2, 2014 at 9:05 AM

    Great folk art !!

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  2. Granny AnnieNovember 2, 2014 at 10:18 AM

    Did you look inside to see his wife? Wow, those are some Great Pumpkins!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 2, 2014 at 10:27 AM

    Great looking jack o lanterns.

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  4. MuffieNovember 2, 2014 at 1:47 PM

    Wow, are they huge!! Great carving work, too!

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  5. MuffieNovember 2, 2014 at 1:54 PM

    PS. Each time I'm on your site, I get a message from my Norton antivirus that they are blocking a site called Sweet Orange ... When I look it up, it says the intrusion is from lamesocial.com. You may want to check it out.

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  6. Arkansas PattiNovember 2, 2014 at 2:19 PM

    Wow, how many pies did they make from the innards of those pumpkins? Huge.

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  7. Country GirlNovember 2, 2014 at 4:54 PM

    Wow! They're some big pumpkins!

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  8. JuneNovember 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM

    Amazing! What an undertaking to gut those things, and carve them. Not to mention moving them around!

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  9. Muffy's MarksNovember 2, 2014 at 9:12 PM

    Those pumpkins are HUGE!!! Thanks for sharing!

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  10. BarbNovember 2, 2014 at 9:13 PM

    Hugely creative!

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  11. SextantNovember 3, 2014 at 10:59 AM

    Wow, those are some pumpkins. I am glad I am not the person who has to take down the halloween display...what the hell do you do with 3/4 of a ton of rotting pumpkin?

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  12. UnknownNovember 3, 2014 at 1:43 PM

    Those pumpkins are just amazing! I am curious -- did they take all the seeds out? What the heck did they use to carve them with? Normal sized pumpkins have very tough skins. I can't imagine trying to carve those gigantic ones. And really -- how big are the seeds?

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    1. OlgaNovember 3, 2014 at 8:17 PM

      The seeds were out so I can't say how big they might have been. It was interesting to see.

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  13. CarolNovember 3, 2014 at 8:43 PM

    Now photos like this are what I have missed! I loved seeing these huge pumpkins via your photo. Thanks!

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