I used to go out to farms and buy lots of gourds, but there are hardly any farm stands this year. Maybe next year. Meanwhile, these are the gourds of yesteryear.
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Wow. A gourd-feast for the eyes!
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I love all the strange shapes and colors! Other than flowers, these are grown entirely because they are so interesting and colorful. This was a better than usual bunch 😉
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Wow, such sharp delineations of the contours. Well crafted!
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Thank you very much. I don’t even know what camera I was using back then. It was, I’m sure, some kind of Olympus, but I don’t remember. It was before my macro lens, though, so I must have been using a normal lens with a macro setting.
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With wonderful results, Marilyn!
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The pictures are lovely. You don’t see these gourds here in South Africa.
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They probably would grow because if a pumpkin will grow, a gourd is really the same thing, just smaller and weirder. Maybe no one has tried growing them? I buy them, but they are pretty easy to grow, or so I’m told 😀
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My dad has grow pumpkins, but ours are different to yours. They are much flatter and the skins are pale and thin. You cannot carve them.
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These are beautiful.
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They are very colorful and kind of weird. I just like the way they look. They are small — basket sized.
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