Pumpkins and gourds at the country store

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Roll into October with one of this month's most iconic symbols: pumpkins, of course! 🎃Did you know that pumpkins are fruits? The flowering plants that bear pumpkins are native to the Americas and are part of the family that includes watermelon, cucumbers, and zucchini. As angiosperms, pumpkin plants rely heavily on insects like bees to help transfer pollen from male flowers to female flowers. Pumpkins come in all sizes: In 2023, a whopping 2,749-pound (1,247 kg) pumpkin from Minnesota won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Half Moon Bay in California—and broke the record for the world’s heaviest pumpkin.

Photo: Doug Donaldson, CC BY 2.0, flickr

nobody’s safe from wonderwall

You never know if today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you

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Beautiful Colours of Nature Beings Smiles for Everyone 😊😊😊 - Author: Traditional-Set-3786

Banff National Park Sunrise [OC] - Author: landscapeluke

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

I'm not excited to live in a word without regulation. 🙃

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Iona by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

Bamboo Forest Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan - Author: divisionparzero

(via Where to see turtles in Oahu)  Sea Turtle, Hawaii

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