Pumpkins and Plates

I know some of you might be ignorant about what's going on up here on my apartment balcony, but I thought it might be prudent of me to warn you about some plants that just might soon take over the world.

Karen's pumpkin collection has been slowly taking over the balcony since the weather turned warm in the spring. I've added some tomato and pepper plants to the mix. So far, no tomatoes or peppers, but we do have two pumpkins that are coming along nicely:

As it turns out, the pumpkins create a very green sort of privacy screen and, with the addition of a little plate collage on the utility door, our veranda (as we like to refer to it) is looking pretty

festive.It's like a privatish sort of oasis if you pretend that the beltway noise is the ocean and that the truck horns are coming from passing ships.