Pumpkin Festival 1

Heinrich really enjoys getting out and visiting the countryside. On the weekend he went to a Pumpkin festival down by Pirmasens, Germany close to the town of Massweiler. There were lots of pumpkins and some of them were very large.

The farmers used pumpkins to make some fun designs and lawn displays. One of them was a large flower made with pumpkins and squash. If you closely you can see the cornstalk people sitting in the lawn chairs on the path.

There was one pumpkin that was so big it started to sag in on its side. The farmers planted a sunflower on top of it and used some smaller squash as eyes. It looked like a big pumpkin face.

One of the fun things for the day was a big corn maze. They called it a labyrinth. It was really big and a little scary so Heinrich thought he would go to the maze that was a little less intimidating.

Just a little way over, there was a different kind of maze. This one was made out of flowers. It was easier to see where he was going and it smelled very very pretty. The flower maze was a lot of fun.

The last flower that Heinrich saw was a huge artichoke. When an artichoke blooms, it has a pretty purple flower that looks a lot like a thistle head. That's because an artichoke is a member of the thistle family, just not as prickly.