Veggies etc

Em was right, I really can't keep away....

Autumn is so stunningly abundant and thrilling. I think I must be very old to be thrilled by vegetation - but I am. So there. The top left of this collage is drying up beach vines on Long Island. The other pictures are from Union Square where the food addicts congregate.

A plethora of pumpkins and gourds - each prettier than the next.

For some reason the green leafy things reminded me of 'under the sea' and curling billows and froth...

Look at the savoy's wrinkles.

Look at the 'hats' on the eggplants - especially the black ones at the top.

Back to frothy and purple and green...

Pears have such a very satisfactory shape.

These poor, sad, speckly, funny unsprayed apples have lots of charm...

as do the Winesaps I bought home.

Urban fruits from roof garden. October....roses, lavender and dill.

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Pond

Leaves have started falling in to the pond

to join all the other various things  that lurk under the water.

Mesmerizing to gaze into

or float on top of.

The duck looks reasonably happy.

More and more houses are decorated for the season of pumpkins.

A motif you can even add into a hat.

All photos taken in Huntington LI

October 20th, 2011

Still Lives

Wet weather this morning.

The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:

From Robert Browning's Porphyria's Lover a super Halloweenish poem in which a loon decides that even the weather has it in for him........



Windowsill, basil, rosemary, pumpkin, seashells.
Plate from Zagora. Embroidery from the East.



Fiesta squash, winesap apples, bowl from Marrakesh, English ironstone plate.
I have borrowed a camera which can do close-ups.
Now I'm really looking forward to Christmas.

The Season Continues

How much fruit and veggies can one possibly look at?
As far as I'm concerned, quite a lot.
If I were patient, I'd make paintings.



So many apples.
The best are Winesaps - not pictured here. They are almost like Coxes Orange Pippins which we used to eat in England.
You can also bob for apples if you want to get very wet and frustrated.



There is something covetable about mini pumpkins.
Like kittens or puppies, one is driven by a wild desire to take them all home.
They are just so cute.
On principal, I'm against cute, however........
So I asked R. to choose just one.
It wasn't the one I wanted.



So we bought lots of apples anyway.
Apples to eat as is.
Apples for apple crumble
Apples for apple sauce
etc etc.



The mini-pumpkin sits on the dining table.
When Isabel comes to tea, we set out the "Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards".
We read the complicated instructions and are slightly bewildered.
Though printed in China,(surprise), we decide the designs are originally German.