I was really happy to be cycling through rural Zeeland, which was in the middle of several autumn harvests, including that of the pumpkin, squash and onion. I stopped at this pumpkin and squash stand which had on display hundreds of different varieties of squash-like organisms that looked like they were invented in a Dutch laboratory. I felt a little homesick upon seeing the pumpkins. I also caught glimpses of the onion harvest in action, with old Dutch onion farmers driving machinery to rip the onions out of the fields and shoot them via conveyor belt to a truck bed. The roads were littered with the carcasses of squashed onions that had fallen in the harvest frenzy, never to make it to the Dutch dinner table. (9/08/04)

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Squash Varietals, Zeeland, Netherlands