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What Camping Can Lead To

11/10/2013

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So, when we were camping in Missouri, one of the hazards at Table Rock Lake was a hedge apple tree, or Osage Orange, right above our camper. Not many fell while we were there but there were some nice ones on the ground. The morning of our departure, I was cruising the social media and came across a posting on Pinterest of a lovely and unique table centerpiece made from white pumpkins, hedge apples, and some ivy--all green and white yet kind of harvesty looking anyway.

As it happens, I love table arrangements. I come by it genetically from my mother and both grandmothers. Years ago, in flower shows put on by the local garden club, table settings was my favorite category. I can't explain it.  So I hustled out and gathered up three nice looking specimens of the weird green fruit and put them in a bag under the sink.

Of course, I had been seeing white pumpkins of all shapes and sizes all fall. So for the next two weeks I kept an eye out for some small ones. Either real or artificial. Nada. Yesterday after hitting several craft stores, I decided if I found orange ones, I could paint them. So that's what I did.

Simple, right? Well, not difficult, but requiring three coats to cover and you can only do half of each pumpkin at one time. Meanwhile, I also found three very small real ones in a basket of gourds at the grocery store, picked up a small whitish Hubbard squash, and added some green apples. I was, as we used to say, cookin' with gas.
The result is pleasing enough, although the green hydrangeas that I decided to include are a little large.

And the hedge apples that started it all? They are in there but mostly hidden because they kind of turned brown under the sink.


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