Fall, the time for harvest from the land. Future Farmers of America’s (FFA) greenhouse in Rensselaer Central High School, Indiana.
“Growers for Life.” Fall mums for sale, $10 each at the local Saturday farm market.
Pumpkins, the uniquely American fruit. Anything that starts from a flower is botanically a fruit.
Corn, all colors.
Gourds, technically fruits, but realistically fall table decoration.
An enormous sunflower head-a seed bank.
To Autumn by John Keats (1795-1821)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.