Pumpkins Before & After Halloween

Three pumpkins (photo from Wikimedia Commons)

31 October 2023

This month we started with new pumpkin gourds …

… carved some into jack o’lanterns …

Three carved jack-o-lanterns (photo from Wikimedia Commons)

… or applied stickers or paint to make faces.

Pumpkins with stickers to make faces for Halloween (photo form Wikimedia Commons)

If you used paint or stickers make sure they’re non toxic. When old pumpkins are outdoors …

Pumpkin graveyard, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, Jan 2022 (photo by Kate St. John)

… someone will eat them. This is where non-toxic paint is important!

Red squirrel gnawing a pumpkin (photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Goats eating an old pumpkin (photo from Wikimedia Commons)

If you’re not sure about your pumpkins, be careful where you dispose of them so that the critters who like to eat them stay healthy.

Happy Halloween!

(photos from Wikimedia and by Kate St. John, credits are in the captions)

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