Get a kick out of it. What goes well with decorative flat pumpkins? Football signs fit the rack, yes.

Flocking with the pumpkins. It’s fun to note what’s new in the seasonal decorations on my dear wife Karen and I’s seasonal trek to Ontario Orchards. Collected out front this time was a bunch of carefully crafted birds perched on stumps of various heights. Bright red, we did believe they are cardinals. Nice work!

Comfort store. My dear wife Karen and I didn’t expect to find a booming nursery when we pulled up for our annual seasonal excursion a handful of dozen miles to the north to the Ontario Orchards Farm Market. The store, thankfully, still stood sturdy and proud for all it offered, outside and in.

Grew a lot. This mature plant would look great in the backyard or front, my dear wife Karen and I agreed as we strolled and dreamed at the Ontario Orchards nursery. But, deep down we knew, no way we had a vehicle that could fit it for the ride home.

Natural or clipped? Did these grow like this on their own, I wondered as my dear wife Karen and I admired the collection at the Ontario Orchard nursery, or did the curator coax them into the three-balled shape?

See the bee? The purple bloom surely caught my eye as my dear wife Karen and I appreciated the cool collections at the Ontario Orchard nursery. Then I noticed who else appreciated this particular largest flower. The big bee left me alone, yes, and I went about my business, too.

Good company. The lone white bloom surely stands out to my eye as my dear wife Karen and I stroll the rows at the nursery to one side of the Ontario Orchards parking lot.

The long look. I’m still devoted to Ballantyne’s Gardens, I repeated to myself as my dear wife Karen and I looked out over the many plants we encountered at our first discovery of the nursery at Ontario Orchards.