you take the good, you take the bad . . .

I returned from a brief holiday and immediately dashed to the front yard to check on my pumpkin. Happily, it's still thriving. But another fledgling gourd wasn't quite so lucky. I found it lying dry and shriveled in the dirt. It's life over before it had truly begun.




On a more encouraging note, another of my pumpkin plants underwent a growth spurt in my absence. It's rapidly moving into perennial territory and appears to have a fierce stranglehold on one of the bee balm stems.

And . . . I do believe another pumpkin is beginning to grow!