The week’s vibe, trending mostly temperate but overtly autumnal, was a kaleidoscope of coloring foliage, Canada geese migrating south, and mid October tastes and smells. Amongst hardier hues and sounds, a sweet tart treat, cherry tomatoes flirting with the possibility of frost ripen to remind us that they are fruit. As colorful and indulgent as candy!
Ground cherries too, cousins to cherry tomatoes, invite the possibility of handing out garden-to-
Halloween treasures for trick-or-treaters. But tempting to horde the late season sweets, an instinct justified halfheartedly by recollecting my preference as a young lad for chocolates and caramels, not apples and popcorn when parading door-to-door dressed up as an Anson’s milk carton or a minstrel gypsy.
It’s curious that cherry tomatoes are both early season and late season gifts, the first preview of long anticipated peak summer harvests, and the last of the delicate fruits and veggies as summer memories fade. Cherry tomatoes, prologue and afterword.
October Cherry Tomatoes, haiku
Frost flirting near now
amber, garnets, and citrines
such sweet fleeting treats
What do you think?