This week we picked up our last share of veggies from our CSA, Lindentree Farm. Funny to walk down the path wearing a warm coat against the wind and kicking red and yellow maple leaves that are scattered there. Not long ago it was summer and too hot to even try picking raspberries. We have really tracked the harvest with this weekly ritual of pick up. The vegetables that are available change week to week. Above is the last offering; celeriac (celery root), brussel sprouts, potatoes, sugar pumpkin, green peppers, green tomatoes, purple cabbage. The big surprise this week was popcorn (bottom photo.) It has to dry out for a month and then we can saute the kernels in hot oil. I love how the ears look with their whimsical curly tops. It is a food that Dr. Seuss might have invented. Corn that pops!? It takes a great imagination to think that one up!
How will we eat now? we wonder. Do we have to enter a grocery store? Eat food that has been trucked in and flown in? We'll make it through, we are lucky to have access to such good food and any food we want. But I now know fresh onions are actually juicy, fresh carrots are really sweet, fresh eggplant is easy to peel, unlike store bought which is kind of rubbery. Fresh tomatoes don't just look like tomatoes, they taste like tomatoes.
The hardest thing for me to give up will be the zinnias. Any day now, I will wake to find them blackened by a hard frost. The "cut and come again" variety has produced orange, red, pink and yellow flowers all summer long. I will miss walking out the front door, picking them from the garden, arranging them in a glass jar and taking them to place in the center of the table at my writing classes.
Last week one of my students commented on them, "you still have zinnias?"
" Yes," I said gratefully, "for now."
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And, the hopeful note....dried flowers that reflect the magic of autumn, corn husks, pumpkins, how about wreaths out of bittersweet...? Ah, the seasons.
Always a new surprise around the corner. Geese picking through the harvested cornfields.
And then, smiling Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting hand in hand in joint prayer around the harvest table, groaning w/ nature's bounty.
Or...hmm. Let's go back to dried flowers and pumpkins.
summer's labor so very beautifully captured. thank you!
It's a fleeting moment in time. We've had drenching rains for three days and now, as the fog lifts, I see Grizzly Peak has snow on top. Autumn leaves are in full glory. It's great walking weather! Thanks for the snapshot...the reminder to seize the day!
As always, I am simply adoring of the photography and the colors and composition.
They make me miss those beautiful New England Autumns...
So glad that I have taken your class and heard you read your writing because now I can actually hear your voice in my head as I read. And, that's a good thing! Love all the imagery and the juicy onions and tomatoes that taste like tomatoes.
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