Fall is my favorite season! I love all the fruits and vegetables that grow in the fall like pomegranates, spaghetti squash, and pumpkins. I recently went to a pumpkin patch and had a lot of fun picking pumpkins and sunflower seeds.

 

 

Riding a tractor reminds me of growing up on a farm, and I couldn’t resist taking a picture on the tractor at the patch. It looked just like the one my friend’s family used to use, and they would always let us ride it.

 

 

Behind my house under the fig tree we had a bee hive where I got stung many times because I forgot to put on my white suit and net when I rushed to collect the honeycomb on my own. Once a week my father and I would collect honey from the hive and we would share the honey with our friends and family. All around the hive were sunflowers and every few weeks we collected the seeds and used the flowers for decoration. I managed to share the sunflower below with the bees without getting stung!

 

 

My father used to have a small pumpkin patch, but he grew huge pumpkins. I have memories of sitting on them and feeling very small. This one looked like some of the pumpkins he grew.

 

 

I hadn’t seen this many types of pumpkins in one place in years, and I thought they were all so pretty and colorful. It reminded me of all of the soups that I can make out of them.

 

 

I wait all year long for the beautiful and warm colors that Fall brings. It makes me feel like making warm soups made, staying inside, drinking apple cider, and baking pies with cinnamon. More than anything, Fall makes me excited for the rest of the holidays to follow.

 

 

Happy cooking!

The Petite Gourmande

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