Sweet Harvest Homestead

The farmers have been busy working day and night to harvest the corn in the fields around our home.  The sound of the combine is the sound of summer coming to a close. The earth seems to give birth in September; the orchards are full of apples and pears weighing heavy on branches.  Muscadine grapes are purpling, and brown nuts are falling on these September days. Yesterday, during my morning walk down our country lane, I noticed that the spiders are casting thick webs on the tops of my neighbor's hedgerow.  When the morning sun hits the dewy webs, there is an iridescent glow to them that reminds me of a soft blanket. When I paused to study them, I had a childlike thought that these thick webs could be used to cover tiny animals or fairy babies.  I think we need to get out in nature more, without taking our phones with us so that our imaginations can take us to other worlds, if only for a short time. The goldenrod that grows along our back fence is bursting with tiny yellow flowers and is r