Beautiful Cranberries

I love cranberries. It is now their time. The Other Autumnal Beauty: The Cranberry Harvest Everybody yacks about the autumnal beauty of leaves in New England, where to go and when to see them best. Well, most people do. One person of my acquaintance came from the American west. They were used to plains, rocky canyons, and mountains almost devoid of trees. That was the scenery for them, and they complained that in New England, they “couldn’t see the scenery because of all these trees in the way”. They did not elect to stay in New England. And the leaves are quite beautiful, as we’ve previously noted on this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR). But there’s another sort of autumnal beauty, often overlooked, and rather specialized in nature: the cranberry harvest. The venerable Globe this week reminded us with a photo essay by John Tlumacki. [1] These are just a few of his photos, by all means go to the source to see more. I love the bright red colors, the contrast with the…