#16 / Squash with Leaf

Our lovely neighbours Rene and Claudine, who live in a far grander house than ours and have an enormous Potager, produce fruits and vegetables all year round: Aubergines, Sharon fruit, Raspberries, Tomatoes, Apricots, Artichoke and as you can see, Squashes. They call every now and again to tell us that they are going to come to the archway in the four meter wall that separates our two properties to hand over surplus bounty. For this we are both very grateful and slightly ashamed as we only manage to grow flowers, grasses and Peppers. Not enough Pepper to be generous enough to hand over, and not enough nasturtium to garnish more than one salad… still, the vegetables keep coming from Rene and Claudine and yesterday they called and drove over with two great heavy pumpkins. Here is one of them, I will paint the other one too and hand the canvas over through the archway in lieu of something more edible.