First day of Autumn, a little bit of orange

Here's a shot of the oranges the girls were selling back in May. These are freshly picked oranges from our neighbor Elizabeth's tree out in the back of her house. Makenna and her friends Kristen and Amalie decided to try to sell them to passers-by from a basket at the bottom of our drive.

Trying to sell oranges and the girls had so much fun with it; throwing the oranges around, drinking the juice out with it going all over their arms and faces, just good, plain Florida OJ fun! I'm not sure how many they actually sold, but I think that was beside the point.

Here's a lovely shot of Makenna squeezing the last bit of juice out of one of the oranges. Amalie is on the left and Kristen's right behind Makenna.

This is Dried out Oranges Still Life #1.

Now this is what happens when your daughter puts the basket of leftover oranges in your garage, right in front of the bikes, behind your loom, and forgets about it, and maybe you put stuff from the car you cleaned out, and stuff from the garage you cleaned out, stuff that's waiting to go to the thrift store, and the doll house that needs to be cleaned out before it's sold is there too and well....here's what happens to that same beautiful basket of oranges when you notice it in the garage in September when you go back to finish that job you started in June, that clean up job.

This is what's known as roach motel, roach banquet, or very happy roach home.

Need a close up shot? Well, here it is. That's some good roach work, there. Yes it is.

Dried up Orange Still Life #2.

So, there you have it. We don't have pumpkin patches here, or fall leaves, no siree, no apple cider or apple picking, but boy-howdee we do have some rotten ol' oranges and that sure says First day of Fall like nothin' else can. Don't ya think so? Uh huh.

Happy Fall!!