Autumnal Equinox 2014
Big Baskets of Apples
A few ways you can tell it is fall here in Quimper Land: Ripe red apples on the backyard tree….
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Tatterdemalion Butternut’s favourite Squash
…Butternut Squash in the market….
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Watching Turkey Vultures on the updrafts
…Turkey Vultures wheeling in the updrafts before migrating across the Strait of Juan de Fuca…
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Patience at the Mailbox
Dark mornings…
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The Quimper Hittys wish you a Happy Autumnal Equinox (Monday, September 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM PDT) if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, and Happy Vernal Equinox if you live south of the Equator!
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Quimper Hittys 
Fall is in the air. I hope Agathe’s visitor arrives soon or her vigil might get chilly.
Fall is definitely in the air around here, Agathe may have to make alternate plans for Mailbox surveillance.
Leaves are turning such beautiful colours here, lots of Person’s apples are ripe, though ours need a little longer, the veggies are stored, blackberries and rosehips are ready to harvest and the swifts are sitting on the overhead wires, ready to fly south to Africa. I love autumn.
Best of all is the smell and bright colours of jams and jellies we are bottling.
My favourite is plum, ginger and almond. Yummy. Roberta likes raspberry best. Which do you girls like best?
Love,
Mary N-Q-H xxxxx
We like plum and bramble jam, but our all-time favourite is gooseberry (made a couple of months ago now). We’ll be putting up apples soon!
The leaves are falling here and Hitty Madge has the first of her Autumn dresses made. She walked around the garden in it yesterday looking at all the changes in the garden that herald the fall. Leaves of reds, goldens and browns are littering the garden. The girls have been conker collecting…who can resist the shiny conkers that fall to the ground beneath the Horse Chestnut trees? Apple and rhubarb crumble has been on the dessert menu for a few days now and has been enjoyed by all.
Oh, I’d love to see Madge in her new dress! Apple crumble here too, but the rhubarb is long gone. We sometimes add a few plums or brambleberries!
Ahhhh fall. And I have to admit the pic of Patience at the mailbox made me grin. All wrapped up against the chill.
Love all the photos and the commentary. Thank you so much for all of this.
Sherry
Poor Agathe is full of patience, persistence, perseverance…the fall is nice here but getting chilly!
Patience is still waiting! Dear girl sure is worthy of her name!
Isn’t Autumn beautiful!
Of course I look again and see it is Agathe…what? I get it now.
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🙂 Agathe insists she is going to stay there until her visitor arrives. We are looking at ways of making the wait more comfortable!
Beautiful Autumn Season. Love the butternut squash and juicy red apples.
We do too – and a certain change in the air that is more than just the temperature!