the colors of atumn

at my sister in laws veranda...
how pretty does this look, just so perfect. i'm super excited about all her trials of dying wool. she is such a creative woman, brave to experiment with natural as well as other colors, trying to figure out what works best for her. she started to card and spin, and within a year got wonderful results, it's just a matter of time, to be brave enough and i will ask her for a few skins to knit myself...

our mantle has become an autumn "wardrobe", i love the pretty colored leafs of the bitter sweet bush as well as some really dark bordeaux wines. of course my fliepie of last year has come out again...

as if the week has more to give than i can take. my parents called this morning and wanted to come over for apple collecting. i kind of have given up for this year, as my week seemed too be too full to add one more chore. but it was all i needed. a quick call and there we went, the girls and i went to the trees and together with my parents we collected all the apples there were. four wooden boxes, not a lot as there was really just a hand full of belle de boskoop, the rest of it was the pomme raisin rouge kind. this one is a pro specia rara apple, not planted a lot anymore, but a wonderful apple for cider (be it sweet or hard). in a few days we will have the sweet pasteurized cider in our glasses, and o how am i looking forward to taste what we harvested this morning!