End Of The Season

Picking bags accept been hung upward for the season, ladders collected from the orchard.  Pickers accept gone on their way, heading to places similar Pittsburgh, Asheville, Portland (Maine) in addition to Hawaii.  Some non certainly where they volition fifty-fifty terminate upward adjacent every bit they pack upward their holding in addition to caput off inward cars, on buses or motorcycles.  "The trellis" is ever the final block of trees to live on picked, generally cider apples some of them existence sold to other orchards.  It was a real practiced crop this year.  I spent my final afternoon picking a few practiced Mutsu apples that were left in addition to and then Macouns, slightly overripe in addition to small, precisely withal perfectly practiced for cider.  The air was cool in addition to every bit clouds rolled inward every bit the twenty-four hr menstruum drew or hence an terminate far earlier it seemed similar it should, every bit the calorie-free faded I headed out of town moving on to my ain unknown place.

The by few months of a precipitous look to accept passed to a greater extent than apace than I thought.  Being ane of the final to larn out the bunkhouse felt real empty every bit I packed upward a machine sum of possessions that had made my fiddling corner of the otherwise bare bunkhouse experience similar dwelling identify to me.  Trudging through leaves that had non fifty-fifty shown a tint of colouring allow solitary whatsoever hitting of falling when I commencement arrived, I experience a certainly melancholia that ane oftentimes feels when leaving a identify or people that accept come upward to concord significance.  If fifty-fifty for a brusk time, this place, the bunkhouse, the long rows of apple tree trees, the picking handbag hung over my shoulders, accept all grown to experience familiar, stability inward a fleeting world.   

All the apples are inward in addition to the final of the leaves are falling to the the world roofing the apples that accept already begun to decompose.  I wonder how many times some of the molecules inward an apple tree accept been recycled every bit a tree nourishes itself alongside it's ain fallen fruit.

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