The frost is on the pumpkin…and the blueberry fields


It’s peak foliage right about now and a wonderful time for a drive in the country.

It’s also a spectacular moment for Maine’s blueberry lands, which turn the most vivid of colors in the fall. Appleton Ridge in the Union area of Maine is a prime example of this display with its fruit fields lining the country roads.

Magenta, pink, red, orange, purple, rust and brown color the low-lying fields of bushes….it’s like another world!

It’s a special treat for me to pass by a pumpkin field still full of pumpkins that got passed by for harvest . Cattle and wild birds enjoy them. In light of that, I wonder why wild turkeys aren’t more delicious! Regardless, it’s a feast for the senses and we hope there are gleaner that also benefit. We need to see more of that in our foodways.

It’s a nice thought that even after their usefulness in feeding us , these fields and lands, once so prized by the Indians, are still feeding our souls in so many ways.