Remember this thread? Well, Squirrell didn't eat ALL the seeds, she apparently planted one. Three days ago, I noticed something orange out my kitchen window, and when I went out and over to it, it was a flower from the smallest, most anemic-looking pumpkin plant I have ever seen. I wanted to take a picture of it to show you all, but it has rained every day since then.

So today, I went out with the camera, and - hey, no flower, in fact 4 inches of stem were gone. Drats, I thought, one of the neighborhood's kids must have picked it! I went inside to tell Paul, and he said "Nope! Early this morning I looked out and there was the wild bunny, in just that spot. I wondered what he was eating - must have been the pumpkin flower!"

So there will be no eentsy weentsy pumpkin this fall. But Squireel tried!

It's a very, very, very shady spot - moss grows well there. The leaves on a pumpkin plant are normally bigger than my hand - the few remaining on this one are maybe an inch and a half wide at the widest. It's amazing the thing made it as far as blossoming!