harvest time

I love fall. I love the food it brings to the table: squash, pumpkins, apples, pears, grapes. I especially love my family's tradition of going grape and apple picking late in September. We went yesterday and enjoyed again the bounty the earth gives: we got almost 50 pounds of apples (Cortlands and Empires) and over 30 pounds of grapes (mostly purple Concords, with a few whites and reds thrown in for good measure). I'm hoping to make grape juice, apple butter and applesauce, and of course eat my fill of the fruit just plain.