Sally painted this “Turk’s Turban” squash as it is more-or-less the last of this year’s allotment harvest, apart from some less-attractive butternut squashes and some chard. Actually, it’s the last of the allotment entirely for the next few years, as we’re giving it up. Not because I don’t enjoy it but because our travels, often spontaneous and sometimes protracted, do not work well with needing to tend the soil. Mid-September is the earliest we can leave it for as long as a month and by that time of year the weather in Northern Europe is getting cooler and the evenings darker. I’ll miss it, though.