Fall Harvest 秋天的收穫

Fall has many different implications. It can represent decline or increasing darkness, but in many cultures it is a time of harvest. The best time of the year. I can remember from my childhood, back to nature types would store vegetables in jars for the entire winter I guess in imitation of what people had to do for survival in earlier times. There are also the various harvest festivals. The Moon Festival 中秋節 that just passed is one. Thanksgiving 感恩節 is a later celebration of a harvest and the Harvest Festival 豐收節 that is celebrated at churches in the place of Halloween is yet another. In past times, people were really happy that they had enough food for the winter, but even today there are some things like pumpkins that just aren't eaten at other times of the year.

That's certainly true in our yard as you can see in these photos. It has been a long season for all of our fall-bearing fruit, 1 and 1/2 months, but it is almost at an end...maybe a week or 2 more. Then no more for a whole year. Two baskets of strawberry guava 草莓番石榴 can be seen in the below photo to the left. There are also yellow pomegranites 石榴 in the basket to the right. In the photo above, there are jujubees 紅棗 in the basket to the left that have already been eaten.