Hello from the land of no internet.
It got taken out twice in a row by storms, but here we are again, hooray!
Just in time for tales, of the pumpkin vine variety.
In the land of never ending summer, a certain pumpkin growing girl lost all her vines to wild pigs.
Yes, wild pigs.
Javelina to be exact.
Yes yes, you've heard that tale before.
I didn't get angry in the end.
But now…
There is a twist!
The Pumpkin King knew she worked so very hard year to year.
Toiling in desert heat.
So, he decided to bestow a little pumpkin magic upon her after all.
And so it was…
That in the flower garden, where the garden swing hangs from a giant canopying mesquite tree…
Pumpkin vines decided to pop through the ground, slowly unfurling.
Curls and leaves gingerly twirling about.
Making their way up to the sky.
Having tea with ivy and swaying in the hot breeze.
Crawling up higher and higher.
Dancing up the bark.
Using string lights for support.
Gracing us with the greatest gift.
What would summer be like in Fanciful, Arizona without at least one pumpkin vine?
And so, I've been swinging with glee.
Watching my pumpkin vine climb the great big tree.
Delighted that the Pumpkin King did not forsake me.
He found a way to make it happen.
In the most magical little spot.
Where shade and swing meet up with a girl and a couple furs several times a day.
Where songs are sung out of key.
Where popsicles drip from elbow to knee.
Where candles and lanterns and fairy lights bounce off their enchantment by night.
That's where pumpkin goodness has found me.
Thankful hearted I am I am.
I soooo am.
Loving the winding twirling curling dance of the pumpkin vine.
Nature, curious character indeeeeed!
Makes me happy as can be.
Any fun little nature things happening in your neck of the woods?
I'm sooo happy to have internet again.
It's been a week and a half of struggling with it.
Imagine what we ever did without it?
I guess without it we never would have met, would we?
So, I hate to say this…
Because I adore seasons and appreciate them so.
But…
I think summer has taken a toll on me.
Sweltering endless days.
Feeling just exhausted from the heat.
Going up hills early in the hot hot hot everyday.
I'm ready for a tinge of cool, how bout you?
A week ago I wasn't ready, but now I am.
It hit me, are you feeling it too?
I think the growing things would love a tiny break as well.
I'm certain of it.
Love, V
Hi there
I love love love your pumpkin vines. How fun for them to be climbing up a tree* We have our Wisteria growing up a tree now, we can’t seem to stop it. I am enjoying summer but oh how I adore Fall. Happy day to you
I hope this will post. I have been trying for months and haven’t been able to
glad you got your internet back.
deezie
I knew the Pumpkin King wouldn’t let you down! So beautiful to see those vines climbing that lovely tree! I’m definitely ready for autumn. Not much growing for me this year as I couldn’t get myself together to start my new little patio garden. I did get a volunteer pumpkin vine, but none of the fruit set. I even tried that trick you showed us with the paintbrush, but alas, it just didn’t take. Oh well…
So glad your internet fairies are back to work for you. I can’t even think of how life would be if I had never found your corner of the world. It is just too beautiful here to ever not have known.
love & blessings
~*~
ps…hugs & kisses to Matty and Miles 🙂
I am more than ready for a break from the wicked heat & humidity, especially with being low on rain. By August I am always relieved it’s nearly over, but I am tired too, very tired. Once this latest heatwave breaks I may cry tears of joy and I imagine my garden will too 😉
Never in a million years would I ever have expected pumpkins to grow up a tree, but I remember how the last few years you’ve had the craziest results from your pumpkins. It’s just magical – and – this is another perfect example of that. Just cool. Flat out nature gracing us with its glorious beauty and simplicity. I’m happy for you and I can’t wait to see all of your eventual photos.
Glad you are back. A storm took out my internet a few weeks ago, it got the router for the WIFI, internet box and card. We have been having a lot of storms.
I planted some flowers hubby had in the greenhouse and noticed a vine growing from the flowerbed onto the sidewalk. I could tell it was some kind of veggie but after seeing your post I think it is a pumpkin (he accidentally gave away all my other pumpkin plants). It is full of blooms and I saw a little green thing out there the other day. So I may have some pumpkins growing on the sidewalk before long 🙂
Bibbidy! Bobbidy! Boo! I am so happy your Pumpkin King Fairy god father came to the rescue for you. He sounds like a Halloween dude with a magic wand up his sleeve. He must have used his magic wand to put magic sprinkles with a protection spell on the seedling pumpkins to be sure some of them would survive.
Our evenings are cooling down and our mornings are cooler too, so fall is in the air, even though it was still 108 yesterday and 102 today. But we still need rain desperately too. They say next week it may rain. Crossing my fingers that it does!
I’m so sorry you didn’t have internet service. I was worrying about you, but knew it would do no good to try and contact you either here or in an email.
I am so glad you are back online.
Rest and relax.
XO
Miss Teresa
I love your pumpkin vine!!!
/Jenny
Do you see the beginnings of any pumpkins? How cool if they will be hanging in the tree!
Veevala Veevala Veevala!
I’ve been visiting here every day, lately, just hanging out, getting inspired by your outdoor life, because there’s finally a wee tinge of not hotness in the air when I let the fur pups out at 4am (the humidity has been relentless and beastly most nights) and so the time has come to tackle the yard of Cool Furry Oaks Manor — and ayayayayay is it ever going to be a job! But, ‘neath the wild brush stands nice green grass, and hundred year old oak trees, and tons of potential for a good garden and a permanent outdoor living room of our own! Wolf Boy and I have been watching every tree house show imaginable, cause he’s gonna help me build one of those, too! :-0
….Aaaaaand long term, there’s an old wolf run in the back yard, that I THINK may be transformed into an additional magical space – with a little elbow grease and a lot of time.ANYHOO
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT YOUR PUMPKIN VINE!!!
How cool is that? I just knew the Pumpkin King couldn’t possibly let you go without presenting at least one pumpkinette for all of your love and admiration!
I didn’t garden this year, but I did toil in other people’s gardens while they were on vacation and Wolf boy took care of their furry or feathery or slithery family members! There are lots of tomatoes and beans around here, and we’re just now seeing watermelon, which once frozen makes the most delectable smoothie evah!
(Have I used up my allotment of exclamation points yet? Hahha!)
JAVELINAS!! I went camping on the Rio Grande once and we cooked spaghetti over the camp fire and were attacked by a gang of javelinas! SQUEAL!!!! We wondered if they were Italian hah.
Yay for Fall a’comin’!! The older I get it seems the hotter it gets :p
xoxoviiii Rooostahhhhh
Hi Ms. V.
As always your posts are a delicious visual and sensory delight! AND informative too, did you know that? I had no idea pumpkin plants push up in such extreme heat.
I’m in Pennsylvania and used to be enamored with growing pumpkins of the big Jack O Lantern size and always aiming for the Country Faire Contest Winner size, but that never happened. Alas, last year at my new house and landscape the sweet deer helped themselves to everything I grew, except one pumpkin plant with two flowers trying to pollinate. I watched them lovingly with anticipation, putting up mesh fencing all around and then…. the new lawn guy showed up wanting to look brilliant at his job and moved the mesh, cutting down my plant to the quick.
Oh he was never to be seen here again. How could anyone confuse a blooming pumpkin plant for tall grass? And inside of a (droopy) mesh fence too? Anyway, this year, with the tons and tons of rain all spring and early summer, if you hadn’t planted by very early May, it was slushy mud soil for weeks and weeks.
Our weather is totally opposite yours.
Your lovely post (and poem…Thank You), stir me on for next year. I marvel at the size of that Pumpkin King plant! And it is simply magical that it took up residence in the same area you cherish to take respite, under the lights. Talk about attracting good things! Ms. V. you definitely know how to do that! Hugs & Be well.
Linda (kosmiclinda on Instagram – where we also converse) <3
When I lived in the southern rain forest of Costa Rica, the internet was very sporatic and amazing we had it at all. In Costa Rica there are two seasons..wet and dry. Other than the wet season and the dry season, the temperature doesn’t change at all. It makes for large, lush year round vegetation, but I did miss the spring and tiny flowers. Living on the Gulf Coast the temperature is similar in the summer and I don’t mind heat, but the heat here bakes our flowers and by summers end they have had it. I am a summer girl through and through and fall tends to make me sad a little, but the cooler weather will bring some relief. I always love your posts, Vanessa.
“In the land of never ending summer…” hehehehe….agreed…it was in the 100s where I am for days and days. The grass is fried. Completely. Rosebuds just dried up. A few of my pumpkin vines quit on me. They said…no more. That’s it! I do have a few that have grown though. I am soooo happy for you Vanessa! I bow down to the Pumpkin King indeed! 😉 Fanciful, Arizona. I think I might move there! Adorable you are! xoxo Jen
There is too much love,sweat and tears that continues to keep this positive energy alive in your Fanciful world V. The magic comes alive and it beams through year to year! Mother nature must be pleased that you have taken care of the life that resides there in your surroundings. They say change is inevitable and its not always a bad thing! If we choose to look beyond and accept there are amazing blessings everywhere that will be revealed! I look forward to see what magic reveals itself there in your world this fall!!! <3
I just love happy endings! And I love how much you celebrate nature’s twists and turns. Halloween is starting to feel right around the corner. I can’t wait to conjure up some spooky magic again with you.
I am, indeed, feeling it, too, Dear Vanessa! Just in the last couple of days (cicadas singing their song, still), but we have had some blessed coolness! I am SO glad a pumpkin vine decided to take up residence in your lovely tree…away from those naughty javalinas!! (Until “pigs fly”, huh?)
Hugs,
Anne and the Kittehs 😉
the pumpkin vine and lights are charming. 🙂
and yes, I am so so so so ready for fall!
It’s so beautiful!
Pretty little vine. Happy the piggy left you one! And yes….I am ready for autumn. We sat outside after a storm last night, and it was a little cool. Our first glimpse that fall will get here eventually. We’ll have warm weather well into November, but our really hot days are numbered….only about another month or so.
Have a happy weekend!
xo,
RJ
Oooh! The pumpkin tree!! I remember this from last summer!! 🙂 Yes, we are just about ready for autumn here, too!! wishing you a merry one!!