Okay, so buffalo gourds (Cucurbita foetidissima) aren't pumpkins, but they are in the same botanical genus. Like pumpkins, buffalo gourds develop on the ground, a position where it's hard to take photographs free from distracting stuff. To get around that difficulty, on October 8th at the Arbor Walk Pond I got down low and used my left hand to lift a buffalo gourd as high as the attached vine would let me, while my right hand wielded the camera. That was good enough to exclude the ground entirely, as I did in most of the pictures I took of this gourd, but I ended up liking the way the darker fringe across the bottom "grounds" this portrait. If you'd like to compare it to one of the "ungrounded" images, and also see a somewhat different portion of what you could fancifully call the planetary surface, click the thumbnail below.
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