autumn's bounty

 It just isn't fall until we've had scalloped potatoes (the way mom made them)

and baked squash.

This weekend we hit several farmstands in South Dakota watermelon country 

and came home with squash, melons, pumpkins and numerous types of gourds

including a couple of birdhouse gourds.

And because pumpkins just don't display well without mums 

we stopped at a greenhouse for a large mum plant.

~b