APPLES OF AUTUMN!
Apples, for as long as I remember, were an integral part of autumn.
Now, I have to admit that I also liked apples in Spring! That led to my writing a poem titled Girls and Green Apples, published in the anthology shown in photo below. However, that was another time, another place. Today, I am thinking of apples closer to my present home.
Cover photo: taking a bite of the apple revelations
This year, with an ill-timed frost in the spring, the apple crop was impacted. The harvest was smaller but there are still many delicious apples to be had. Last week, I bought some Northern spy apples at the local market–great for pies! Add lots of cinnamon!
Sometimes, there is an apple that does not transform well into jelly or pie or applesauce. Our neighbours have such a tree with very tart crabapples. They do not work as jam or jelly but the squirrels have a feast! This poem is for them!
Under the Crabapple Tree
Well into autumn
a circle of green lawn is covered
with brown and red globes.
Hundreds of fallen crabapples are there for the picking–
brown and black squirrels chomp with glee!
© 2012 Patricia Anne McGoldrick
*Inspired to focus on apples for http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/2012/10/open-link-monday_22.html
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I will bet they do! Lovely write!
Thanks Audrey! I think that the apples are a good distraction!
I have seen those squirrels ~ Hope they are enjoying the feast ~
Grace, they look very content!
Tails swishing, eyes darting as they sink their teeth in. I like watching them dig little holes and stick food in. In N.Michigan, we had black squirrels. But here in NC, just brown.
There is such a variety of squirrels–we have grey, brown and black, no red!
Congrats on the Green apples and at the mention of the crab apples my mouth puckers!! lol Great image captured, Patricia!!
Thanks Hannah! These crabapples are like that!
Hi Patricia, I’m hoping this comment will reach you this time.
What I really liked about this poem was how you tied the season to things we could appreciate through the senses: sight, taste and touch.
Kerry, your comment came through!
So glad that you mentioned the settings as a quick change made it more accessible.
Thanks about the sensory appreciation! I think that the fog heightened my awareness that day.:)