RDP – Esculent

….thanks to Bushboy for todays Ragtag Daily Prompt of ‘esculent’ https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/ragtag-daily-prompt-thursday-esculent/

es·cu·lent

FORMALadjective – fit to be eaten

noun – a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten

The fruit of the tomato plant is esculent but the plant is not. With potatoes the roots are esculent but the plant itself is poisonous.

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Gourds are not esculent – just decorative
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…..even though they look like their cousins, pumpkin and squash
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Pumpkins are definitely esculent and not just for Hallowe’en
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Beware of fungi – some are esculent but others can be deadly when consumed
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My Christmas Trifle was very esculent
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…as was our Christmas dinner

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian Family and Friends

….this year it was more about the pumpkins, decorations and squash

Usually the turkey is a big deal but when it’s just the two of us, we tend to keep things simpler. Leading up to Thanksgiving we stopped at some favourite places and picked up some gourds for decoration, lots of vegetables and yummy butter tarts.

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Gourds outside Wendy Bs shop in Lafontaine
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Inside Wendy Bs place
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Pumpkins at Harris Farms
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Cream of the Crop Squash
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Thanks for the spending the day with me, Andrea
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Sunday night’s dinner prepared by my wonderful husband

Art at the Farm – PPAC

….thanks to Marsha for hosting PPAC https://alwayswrite.blog/2022/09/09/ppac-63-a-day-of-public-mourning/

On my last trip to the cottage I stopped at Harris Farm to check out the pumpkins and produce. There were tons of pumpkins in all sizes and colours and part of the field had been set up for the kids to play games. They also took hay bales and painted fun characters from Winnie the Pooh.

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Trios in the Neighbourhood

….for Thursday Trios I took a walk this morning to see if I could spot some interesting trios

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If you’d like to join in just post a photo or two or three or more of anything with threes…..people, animals, birds, flowers, objects, etc.. Your photos can be in black and white or colour, square or oblong. There are no time restrictions. If you’d like me to comment on your post just copy my link and paste it into you post and I will get a pingback. Have fun!

Thursday Trios – A Gallery from the Past

…..apart from the last photo all the rest were pulled from the archives

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My winning trio after their race two years ago
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Pumpkins at a roadside farmer’s stall
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Christmas decoration on the lawn in the neighbourhood
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From my garden in previous years
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Last year’s harvest of pumpkins from my garden
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Captured yesterday in the park

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Still Enjoying the Bounty from the Garden

….can’t get over the beans….they just keep producing more

I’m pretty sure that we’re done with the beans now but I see lots of cherry tomatoes still on the vines and the beans that didn’t get picked early enough are now providing a lot of seeds for next years garden. Even the pumpkin plant has a couple more small pumpkins on the vine. The three that I picked should make some nice soup and one is definitely going to Winnie when I see her this week (or at least when I see her mother).

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