journal entry: Everyone we know is talking about their fruit trees. Trees that are supported by sticks and boards because they are so heavy with fruit. Bumper crops of everything. Apples. Peaches. Pears. The bounty actually makes me a little nervous. Does it mean that next year will be …
journal entry: PRACTICE I have been practicing. Over and over and over. That is the beauty of digital technology. I am trying to overcome my zoom lens habits and breathe like an ultra-wide angle photographer. Amateur photographer, that is. I have never been one to take photographs of scenery. …
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now, in October.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne- journal entry: Grandpa likes to wait for help. This kind of help. He thinks that harvesting from the garden or the …
“Come ye thankful people come. Sing the song of harvest home. All is safely gathered in. Ere the winter storms begin.” -Thanksgiving Hymn- journal entry: In October everything is beautiful. It is cool but not cold. It rains but doesn’t snow . . . much. The garden is overgrown. Leaves …
“Grandpa, look at our hands. They’re the same !” -Holden and Grandpa Painting Pumpkins- journal entry: It is October. Pumpkins are ready. All are harvested and lined up in the garden. Children have opinions about pumpkins. Once they have picked their favorites, I get out the paint and the glitter …
“An apple is an excellent thing until you have tried a peach.” -George du Marier- journal entry: I am not the only one who feels this way. Everyone talks about it. The feeling they get when they are finished bottling peaches. The way the peaches look. Lined up. Beautiful. There …
“Good peach pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” -Jane Austen- journal entry: Most people think that grandmothers can make pies. It seems so “old world” and “long ago”. I never did learn how to make pies. At least not very well. I could have enjoyed making pies …
journal entry: I wonder what little children think when suddenly food is outside . . . is on the ground and under the ground. When apples literally fall from the trees? Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year for children. They can eat things they pick themselves. They …
“He’ll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch and he respects sincerity.” -Linus to Charlie Brown speaking about The Great Pumpkin- journal entry: We planted the pumpkins later this year, hoping to stretch their ripening all the way to October. Oh, well. Those in the middle of …
“Nature composes some of her most lovely poems for the microscope and the telescope.” -Theodore Roszak- journal entry: Now I know that there is a hidden world which can only be appreciated through a macro lens. I am not one to take many pictures of things without people. Just seems …
