September is really lovely in my Portland. It's when many of the warm-weather crops are at their best and their ripest—peaches, apricots, summer squash, tomatoes and corn. Most days the temperatures are reaching the 80s. It's still full-on summer, really. I should be soaking it in. But still, I can't help rushing fall a bit. I find myself searching out every deciduous tree. Smiling at every seedpod and acorn. Relishing the early mornings when it's cool enough for a sweater.
I've pulled out some of my fall wardrobe workhorses—just to have them at the ready.
I sat down to big bowls of soup for lunch (albeit summer's tomato).
I covered things in wool and velvet (hey, if it's too warm for me to wear it, how about these cushions?)
And when I'd almost tired of all the tomatoes, I filled my basket with the first crops of apples and pears.
Happy onset of fall.
—Stephanie
18 September 09
This post was originally shown with this piece by MAV and this diptych.