lone pumpkin, 187th Street

This adorable little pumpkin has been quietly growing away just outside the front door of my apartment building. No one seems to know who planted it, but I think a certain communal affection has grown up around it a bit. I've seen parents pointing it out to their kids, and the kids crouching down to peer at it and touch it, and I've even caught Joe, our beloved little old doorman, watering it on occasion.