Picking The Perfect Pumpkin

October 24, 2025

Picking the perfect pumpkin is such a weighty decision to make. Your Halloween celebration will be dependent upon your choice. To my mind the one most important part of that decision is what does the stem look like. Does it have an exquisite twist to it? To me, that is the determining factor.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.