I love reading your ringing of these small changes, each as particular to place and time as a fingerprint. Here, in my neighborhood, the hot dry winds of last week have shriveled the last raspberries and popped the cherry tomatoes before I could harvest. A fine tradeoff for delaying the fall fires.
I love walking through this change of season with you, you gathering the every color and texture of flux and fruition and the sacrifices to the birds gathering all the same. And I am enchanted with the elderberry and rose hips recipes and learned something: I had not known about the alkaloids in green elderberries being toxic.
Delicious poetry William and inspiring me to go hunting elderberries and crab apples this weekend now I’m no longer Covid positive. Is it easy to get the innards out of rosehips? I know they can catch the throat otherwise. Thank you again
Felt as though I was walking beside you so descriptive. Nothing escapes your keen eye.
Thank you for the compliment.
I love reading your ringing of these small changes, each as particular to place and time as a fingerprint. Here, in my neighborhood, the hot dry winds of last week have shriveled the last raspberries and popped the cherry tomatoes before I could harvest. A fine tradeoff for delaying the fall fires.
I’m always torn between the two seasons. I look forward to the wood fires, though do love the remains of the hot weather.
I love walking through this change of season with you, you gathering the every color and texture of flux and fruition and the sacrifices to the birds gathering all the same. And I am enchanted with the elderberry and rose hips recipes and learned something: I had not known about the alkaloids in green elderberries being toxic.
I love to try to convey the details that I see. I’m happy that you can walk here through my words.
Yummy Will I just put on 10 lbs! Perfect prose for the season.
I thank you. And thank you so very much for supporting my work.
Beautiful beautiful writing!
Thank you so much for the compliment Sarah.
Delicious poetry William and inspiring me to go hunting elderberries and crab apples this weekend now I’m no longer Covid positive. Is it easy to get the innards out of rosehips? I know they can catch the throat otherwise. Thank you again
Yes just open them and scoop the innards out. Use a teaspoon and you’ll see what I mean. There are always a few stubborn ones.
Thank you, will do .