A melon gets in on pumpkin fun

It’s September and pumpkins have appeared in stores. Some are black, some are fuchsia, but real orange pumpkins have yet to appear. I could purchase a fake pumpkin to carve, but I crave the real thing. Fortunately, I had a great crop of watermelons this summer, and there were a few to spare , so I thought watermelons could perform a double service of providing a little Halloween fun on Labor Day and offering us one last sweet summer taste.

I didn’t scoop them out. Instead I used a chef’s knife to carve faces into Black Diamond and Jubilee watermelons. Although their smiles weren’t lit with candles, the sun cast its rays onto the pink flesh with an eerily different kind of effect than traditional October pumpkins. 

So thanks to these two watermelons for creating a little bit of Halloween magic at summer’s end.

Two watermelons start off the Halloween season early

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