All Shapes and Sizes

What great weather we're having!  I'm not sure it's politically correct to say it, but Indian Summer is fantastic!  We've had a long string of sunny, warm days and more fine weather is forecast.  I sure am enjoying this Fall, so far.  This morning, Margaret and I took the three dogs to Beaudry Provincial Park again.  We arrived later than usual and there were dozens of cars in the parking lot.  Fortunately, everyone seemed to be walking the woodland trails.  We decided to try the grassland trails and were pleased to find them totally empty except for us.  The dogs thoroughly enjoyed themselves running off leash.

On the way home, we stopped at two garden centres.  At the first one, we loaded up on farm fresh vegetables (plus some saskatoon jam and some rhubarb marmalade for my sweet tooth).  At the second one, we just looked around.  The pleasant surprise was to walk into a greenhouse loaded with pumpkins of every shape and size.

We didn't especially want to buy any pumpkins yet but I couldn't resist taking a few pictures.  Pumpkins have always been a symbol of Fall to me.  The appearance of pumpkins marks the end of the vegetable growing season here in Manitoba.  We'll start having more and more frosty mornings now until, come Halloween, the snow will appear and likely stay through the coming winter months.