I did not want the first summer in this garden to end, I don't think my cat did either, but it did and we both love it.
Figs release a little white milk when they are not completely ripe, my mother warned me: "don't eat figs when they release the milk" , it kept my greed for them in check.
Pomegranates, golden nuggets of summer sun protected in the leathery cover.
My anemic malformed pumpkins, they do make a great soup, but they did not get any bigger than a melon.
Apples, we had plenty of apples. These apples are heirloom, they make a mean tarte tatin. This is not the perfectly tamed apple, the apple made for packaging and display in super markets, this apple is more like a quince mixed with apple, distorted, no proportion, dark splotches. An apple you could see in a still life from centuries past.
American fall tastes, apples and pumpkins, can you get enough?
And right here in California all together. Everyone keeps talking of the demise of California. It will take a little more than an economic crisis and Arnold to destroy this land.
The fashion is to eat seasonal food. Our mild weather helps us have the food of the seasons in our gardens, in our farmers markets and our stores.
Just as I get enough of eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, here come the fall ingredients. Sweet spicy flavors that need slower and longer cooking. What is the point of a year round tomato? Gorge yourself in the summer with the tomatoes and move on to the next season. A cooking tomato here and there is fine, but a tomato salad when this grows around you seems vulgar and out of place.
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I have to say, I love love love love love black cats! He/she looks like my Fred - the best cat in the universe.
Waking, I have a tree in this house I moved in almost a year now. I love pomegranates.
The cat, she has been living of the wildlife in the garden.
Ever had a sapote?
Owl, thanks.
Halloween always feels like the seasonal change in food and drink.
-Rated
then there's your narrative. I had the great privileged of living in Salinas and then Watsonville for a few years, and had my own garden...mostly flowers and a few vegetables. The tomatoes reseeded, and I had sunflowers that were as tall as our house with stalks that cut our hands, no lie. Thats how wonderful the dirt is there...blacker than tar and just as thick and dense.
And then those vegetables. Oh Stella, what I wouldn't give for an apple tree to pick and then bake from. When we moved from my husband's Nona's house, his father sold it and the new owners immediately cut down the fig tree that she had brought to America from Italy. It took up the entire side yard and was so prolific. We had to fight the birds for them, but the figs were wrested were huge and sweet and wonderful.
apologies for always spieling your name with just one- A.
not Stella,
But, Stellaa.
Your photos reminded me of the apple called, Lady Apple. Apples are dropping ripe from two old old heirloom trees. The grower was discovered years ago in a Seed Saver Catalogue. There is The Seed Saver Exchange Catalogue too. The Lady Apple Tree was from Washington State. Interesting. The tree never needs a pesticide. It's a tiny apple that is called:`Lady apple, because it fits in a pocket and purse if your traveling on a stagecoach. It real bright red on the sunny side of the apple. The back-shaded side of the apple ... the skin is green.
Deer scarf them up.
This inspires a beautiful mood.
Beauty provokes a serene spirit.
It makes one want to watch swans.
Swans dive in a park in Hagerstown.
Western Maryland is awesome in autumn.
Oaks, maples, sassafras, sycamore, pines:`
Leaves are saying to the tree:`Bye, see Ya.
Maybe the leaf returns (karmic) in Spring.
A folk who evoke unease, is a Nasty Spirit.
They may be reborn Big itch lice in China?
They might bite dogs, cats, heels, ankles,
and weaponry-of-death arm merchants?
I wanted to leave now on a positive note.
Thanks.
Good on Ya,
Stellaa. 2- A's.
Chill is setting in a big way in my town, and my outdoor market goes inside for the winter, which means if I want to eat local it's pretty much apples and cabbage. Sigh. Fortunately I have a fantastic fruit store that gets the best of the California crops. But I have to eat that stuff along with some carbon footprint.
Thanks for a beautiful post in so many inviting ways. Eggplant is a wonderful veggie and one that folks often overlook to their own hurt.
Rated and appreciated
I am a lazy gardner and California is forgiving.
Silk, I love the cyclical eating and I now just buy at the Farmer's market. What is incredible around here I found small sustainable meat and poultry growers. I buy less, but the darn stuff tastes so good. Hard to go back to the other stuff.
@vilgesuella, so glad you came by. Folks, I just discovered his writing and it is just brilliant. Enjoy his posts.
orchards in autumn
after rains
thin branches hang heavy
with ripe shiny apples
easy to gather by hand
filled with tempting bruises of biblical memory
careful not to let them fall
You are blessed.
Zyskandar, thanks for the poetry. (hemidemisenmiquavered) still trying to pronounce.
@Screamin, where have you been?
@John, glad to see you back. Makes me smile.
@Cat, yes the little devil cat is sure fun.
@julie, I love persimmon trees, I love when the leaves drop and the fruit is clinging to the branches.
@ Dennis, it is a fruit? I guess tomatoes are as well.
Love this Stellaa.
Yummy!
We got 3 apples this year from a tree that we planted to replace a more mature one that a drunk driver took down with a SUV three years ago. I'd say my garden is way behind yours in maturity and about 750 miles north.
When I was a kid in San Diego County we had pomegranates, figs and quinces in addition to a full slate of citrus and avocado. Our garden was at least one acre and I had no idea that people have little gardens like we do now.
We had three apples this year. This year we planted a Prairie Fire Crabapple, and a Karmijn de Sonneville Apple, which I tasted at a fruit festival where there were about 40-50 different varieties to taste. I can't think of anything that I enjoy more than our garden and every activity that comes along with it. Because our season is so much shorter up here, we are going to build a greenhouse to lengthen the season. That never seemed a neccesity in California.
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