The One With the Unusual Color

Last year all pumpkins were brightly orange, every time I glanced at them on that range.... I thought of another Thanksgiving Day when I would kneel down and pray. I went to the October annual pumpkin patch where many folks had the irresistible itch to find those pumpkins they liked to take home, sadly, I was left there alone and aimlessly roamed. What I saw was not the orange pumpkins I was searching for...they hadn't the usual color: staring at me there were white pumpkins nobody wanted to pick up, I looked no further. Did I think what my Thanksgiving pumpkin pie would have looked like: a lemon pie instead? Kids and adults would have laughed at me! It seemed I had no choice but to take the one so plump and ripe... and I shouldn't have been late to taste that bitter dose of reality! Not too glad to have found the one with the unusual color, I put my fantasy to work...thinking of a way to make it orange; I bought a bottle of orange flavor extract to give it a real color and blended with the ingredients hoping for an award in vintage. Closer to an hour I constantly watched it bake and I peaked here and there... oh, the vapors smelled superb as I happily laid back in my rocking chair! And had they known of my cheat , I would have been expelled from the Pumpkin Fair! Luckily, I won the competition for taste and artistry...admitting to myself it wasn't fair.