Tenacity

 

Remains of an Old Orchard

 

It's Time!

 

Morning Dew Around the Old Farmyard

Bearing Fruit at Last

It's been a few years since I planted two apple trees just past the big barn. I've forgotten how many years exactly. I've forgotten the names of the apple varieties. (We chose a couple we liked.) But this year the trees are bearing fruit at last, and that makes me very happy. It reminds me, too, that while keeping expectations realistic  may hold heartbreak at bay, it's also important to keep hope alive.

Last Farm Market Day in Northport

I want to feature my friend Kathy from Windy Ridge North today. There are many fine vendors and many growers of beautiful fruits and vegetables at our county farm markets, and I've shown you others before, and today is her turn. Her booth looked so beautiful I had a hard time putting my camera down -- and then I couldn't stop finding more produce to buy. Here's why:

My haul

You can't see it all very well, but there was a bag of tomatoes, a bag of peaches (I pulled one out to have its picture taken), a big bunch of Swiss chard, one small zucchini, some gorgeous onions, and darling little patty pan squash. Thank you, Kathy!

Experimentation with Plum Blossoms

Looking Closely at Fall Colors and Patterns

Fall color comes in every hue, 

from blindingly bright to hushed and quiet.

There is color in fruits, not only leaves.

Wild grapes, as well as domesticated grapes in vineyards,

are hanging ripe on the vine.

Ash leaves! So many different colors!

Asters are the brightest fall flowers

in fields and along roadsides.

Some colors are very subtle

but merit close attention.

Then there are nature's patterns, 

beautiful even with color subtracted