Happy First Day of Fall!

Celebrate Fall – today is the Autumnal Equinox

Fall decorations with pumpkins and flint corn
Seasonal Pumpkins and Flint Corn

Fall is here and it’s the first day of the Autumnal Equinox. The weather is starting to change with cooler weather coming this weekend. Pumpkins and gourds are appearing at farm stands (and Halloween costumes have been in the stores for a month now – that is truly frightening!)

Celebrate the changing seasons with some cider and doughnuts, a walk in the woods to see the changing leaves or just soaking up the last rays of warm sunshine.

Check out my selection of Fall and Pumpkin images to find the perfect image for your graphic design needs.

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Last of the Autumn Harvest

Homegrown Tomatoes Are The Best!

You can’t beat the flavor of vine ripened homegrown tomatoes.  This year I had a bumper crop with plenty of heirloom slicing tomatoes (perfect for sandwiches or salads) and my favorite Super Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes.  I look forward to the ripening of the Super Sweets all summer long and take delight in snacking on them when they begin to ripen in late August.

My Plum Tomatoes thrived in a new garden area prepped with organic mulch from the compost pile.  I’m coming down to the last of the autumn harvest on these tasty fruit, or vegetable, depending on where you side in the fruit / vegetable debate.  Botanically, tomatoes are a fruit but for culinary purposes they are generally considered to be a vegetable.

Several years ago I was fortunate to learn the secrets of making fresh tomato sauce from my husband’s Italian grandmother.  Today, at 96 years old, she still makes a pot of sauce every Sunday.  I’ll be trying to squeeze out one more small batch from the harvest this year if the remaining tomatoes cooperate by ripening together, otherwise we’ll be having tomato, mozzarella and basil salad for dinner – either way a culinary delight.

Of course I couldn’t let the opportunity to photograph a few of the tomatoes and some fresh Thyme pass me by.  Search out some of my other pictures of plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, beans and cucumbers from the garden in the Food / Drink category of my portfolio.

Pumpkins Are Ready For Harvest

Harvest autumn profits with seasonal images

Pumpkins in the field are still growing on the vine but it’s not too early to make plans for harvesting profits with seasonal images of pumpkins, gourds, squash and pumpkin seeds.  Early July showed a marked increase in downloads on my top selling pumpkin photos as designers fulfilled needs for autumn themed projects.  You’ll find a selection of autumn images in traditional colors of red, yellow and orange in our Autumn gallery.  More images to come, so keep checking back to see what’s new.