They're still green and unripe at the end of summer, they'll need all the sunshine they can get, and then some fall. Only then they'll mature, turn to their golden or red, purple and brown colors, and give the most prized fruits. And their harvests will be cause for celebration and the closing of the summer season: they are the grapes, the olives and the chestnuts that line our steep hillsides and woods.
(Chestnuts, once the main source of carbohydrates during the long winter months in this valley, have now lost their key place in the local diet - but the kids and I still go chestnut picking in the woods each fall.)
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A Week of Colors, summer edition, join in if you like!
blue - Monday 27
red - Tuesday 28
green - Thursday 30
multicolor - Friday 31
