Don’t pumpkins just make you feel

A pumpkin just in time for the first day of Fall. Pumpkins are nostalgic. I can go all summer without thinking of a pumpkin but once September rolls around, it sets in.  I can just see the bright orange and that earthy yellow stem. That pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie and a spooky jack-o-lantern. Thats when you know its time to set the table with fall icons and the pumpkin is at the fore front. 

Pumpkins and that fall feeling when the harvest peaks and our eyes want bright earthy colors to feast on. As we go towards darkness the instinct to go inward gets closer.   

It is almost time to start getting out those recipe books for the Holidays. I can’t think of a better ingredient than pumpkin, so versatile. Of course pumpkins and their close relative the squash and all its variations. Let me say it one more time. Pumpkins.