The Vinyl Café Notebooks by Stuart Mclean
Author:Stuart Mclean
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP (CANADA)
CHERRY SEASON 2006
The all-too-short 2006 cherry season has come and is almost gone where I live.
These days, when you can get a box of strawberries in the dead of winter, cherries may be the last of the seasonal fruit. They come, around here anyway, during the first few weeks in July.
And when they come, you know you have to move fast because by the time August arrives, cherries will be long gone. And you can mark me down in favour of that, in case you were wondering.
Not the going. But the coming and the going. I like to measure the passing of the years with things like that: the return of the warblers, the departure of the geese and, yes, our annual visit to the pick-your-own cherry orchard.
Cherries may be the most convivial of the summer fruits, the only fruit served communally. Strawberries require individual bowls. Put a single bowl of cherries on a table and one thing is for sure: people are going to hang around.
And what could be better than hanging around a bowl of cherries with your friends on a summer afternoon? Except maybe cherry-picking.
A cherry orchard may be the perfect place to while away some of the summerâlike all orchards, itâs blessed with the grace of shade; but unlike any other orchard I can think of, a grove of cherry trees has perfected the rhythm of summer. Which is to say that time in a cherry orchard moves languidly. You can pick more apples than you know what to do with in about five minutes. But a bucket of cherries can take hours, and that is about all the work that should be required of anyone on a sunny Sunday in July.
What could be better than to be sent out to the orchard and told not to come back until your bucket is full, and it is just you and that flock of starlings who are honing in on you like guided missiles, immune, apparently, to the banging of the propane bird clapper? The birds and the berries and the whir of the cicada and, of course, the red stain on your lips and fingers.
23 July2006
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