The Great Pumpkins of Milton - Glass of Course 10/31/06

Milton is well known for its Pumpkin Festival and its a West Virginia tradition to decorate for fall with pumpkins. They are everywhere.
Martha Stewart is asking folks to send in there favorite pumpkin photos.I sent Martha three photos - My favorite pumpkin photos are of GLASS PUMPKINS.

f you haven't been to the BLENKO GLASS Visitor center and Gift Shop now is a great time to go. The pumpkins are on sale. There is also a 'neat' display of pumpkin yard art, and inside the VC you'll find pumpkins of all colors and sizes. You don't know this - - but I am a very frugal person. This frugality and my love of BLENKO lead to and my thinking about glass ie BLENKO pumpkins buying. The thought process goes likes this - a glass pumpkin is about $22 and a fresh pumpkin is $12 - $20. . . . But with care the glass pumpkin will last a life time. Therefore I am saving lots of money. I still buy the occasional real pumpkin. There is one on my front porch as I write this. I enjoy carving jack - 0-laterns and those traditions as much as the next 22 year old, but I also like buying Blenko Pumpkins (each year the pumpkins change just a bit) and enjoy unwrapping them and remembering the selection process and the year they were purchased.


Last week a 'surprise' package arrived with a glass pumpkin from Osburn Modern Glass . It's a sheer orange fluorescent Pumpkin -designed and made by Dave Osborn. Osburn was for over 30 years a Blenko employee, he retired an opened a small hand crafted glass studio in Milton just up the road from Blenko.