Thanksgiving

Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving... Psalm 95:1-2a

A kaleidoscope of colors - what a feast for the eyes! At this time of the year I like to take a trip out to Whisbey farms near Yarrow. The large orange barn near the freeway signals the turnoff. Here you can find bins of freshly grown local cabbages, beets, carrots, potatoes, squash of every shape and variety and fields of pumpkins. The huge cabbages sell for $1.29 -up from $1.00 a few years ago and are perfect for cabbage rolls and borscht. When I cut in to a super large one yesterday the ripping sound was just as I remembered it from years gone by in my Mother's house. But the gourds and squash really caught my eye for all the color. Here the larger orange one was simply called a gourd, there is a butternut, a couple of acorn squash, turban squash in the forefront,the spaghetti squash I had already started so it didn't make it into the display. I purchased four small cooking pumpkins, one of which was already in the oven when I set this up. We love pumpkin pie and pumpkin pudding. I took so many shots and had great difficulty deciding which, if any, was better than the other. Finally I decided I would take Blogger up on the offer and collaged them like this-