Autumn seems to appear and disappear so quickly. I always try to extend the season by introducing it early at both our home and the shop.
I visited our local garden center to pick up some mum plants and they had small baking pumpkins. It seems practical to fill my basket with baking pumpkins since I can cut off the tops and bake them. Then I place the meat of the pumpkin in the freezer. It's handy for baking, stewing, and cooking. You most never notice the taste of pumpkin but it enhances the flavor. Typically when I purchase large pumpkins they end up going to waste. What's that saying? Waste not, want not. Have you ever wanted to know what that really means? I have. We are a wasteful society. I'm guilty but making every attempt to not be.
The Velvet season is approaching! Crispy Scarlett leaves, orange pumpkins, and chestnut landscapes have me taking a deep breath in anticipation of their natural beauty.
This past week I gathered a few of the new shop items and captured some images for some fall marketing. I'm a huge fan of shooting outside. Even better, it was the cloudy and rainy day that seems to summon such projects.
Warm and wooly mittens, scarfs, and leggings are making their way on the shop shelves.
I'm taking it in, and treasuring its brief stage.
The pumpkin shot was taken a last season at the pumpkin farm. One can not help but smile when they're surrounded by pumpkins.
"I can not endure wasting anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The American Notebooks
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau
Slow down, don't move so fast...
Keep the faith.
Jill
