I just bought 10 kilos of pumpkin.  Two pumpkins, 10 kilos and about eight blocks later I am tired and I have green pumpkins.  Yep.  One is green and the other one is some where between white and green.  They are not orange.<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1328" title="Pumpkins at Night" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dsc01172.jpg" alt="Pumpkins at Night" width="500" height="375" />

I like orange pumpkins.  In my mind, orange pumpkins are a part of fall.  Pumpkins sit on front porches, windows and we carve them.  We eat pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins and sometimes even roasted pumpkin. But they are orange.

Okay, I don't want anyone to think that I don't like the green Bulgarian pumpkins--I do.  They taste great.  But they are green.  Somehow it doesn't seem very fall to me.

Why, why oh, why Bulgaria do you only have green pumpkins?! Зелелна тиква--really!?

Still I bought two big pumpkins because tomorrow after English I am teaching my students how to carve pumpkins.  Heck I think that to have a well rounded eduction you need to have both academic skills but also real life skills--like pumpkin carving.

So we'll be carving (or trying to) a white-ghost pumpkin and a green-goblin pumpkin... But I'm still wondering what makes some pumpkins orange and other green or white.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1329" title="The pumpkins " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dsc01177.jpg" alt="The Green Pumpkin and the White Pumpkin" width="500" height="375" />