Still roadside waterways lead travelers into our town after ramping off of a hurried hwy. In this season along the water ways, a pumpkin stand with glowing pumpkins, Mums and pear shaped squash finds a place on a patch of grass. Drivers, giving long glances at the colourful stand as they drive by, often pull into the pumpkin stand that has also caught my interest. I want to go there soon to replace the lone pumpkin I slid off our porch to carve for a pumpkin carving contest, held during a party recently with my newly made Alabama friends.
It's always a treat to go out to the water ways leading into town. When the temps drop, the cold icy air kisses the trees there leaving a streak of red and gold through out the tributary. In time with colder yet November air, the streak will fill in with solid color. The pumpkin stand only highlights the beauty that is already there.
I know there are lots of pumpkin patches advertising hayrides in the valleys below the mountains in North Alabama and Tennessee. But, the water way pumpkin stand just calls out to me the most for Halloween pumpkins. No matter how often I drive through the roadside water ways that lead into our town, I often remember the first time we rode through there with our moving van. The arms of the Tennessee River reached out to me that day welcoming me in.
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