Mabon - The Autumnal Equinox
"Autumn holds a wonder all its own" - Laura Jaworski
Yesterday was Mabon. The first day of fall - the Autumnal Equinox. Cool fresh air with a slight nip in the air - the smell of apples and falling leaves.... My favorite season of the year. My feast consisted of apple chutney over pork chops, roasted potatoes with apple cider vinegar, carrots, apple fritter bread, leaf shaped cookies, pumpkin spice cookies, frosted spice cookies and apple pound cake.
Of course apple wine was served....
Mabon is the second of the harvest feasts. It is centered around root vegetables and apples.
Good food and precious family.
Blest be!!!!
The joys of Autumn.
I looked at the baked goods and my blood sugar spiked ...
They were very tasty.
Looks tasty!
Apples in Arkansas ripen way before fall. One of the things I miss about living in PA. Soon it will be cider time
Our apple harvest in Western NY is usually from late August to October. Cider will soon be abundant. I use apple cider in my wassail for Yule in December.
my mom makes holiday breads, like pumpkin and zucchini, but my favorites are her banana-nut, cranberry nut, and chocolate breads. she used to have to make another separate cranberry nut bread loaf just for me, so that others could get a piece.
the last time she baked me one was for the drive from texas to colorado. it lasted the first 2 hours of the drive ...
I love breads. Spice breads - sweet breads. They are not good for me, but are damn good.
normally, I can't stand cranberries, but I like them in the bread she makes. since it's a holiday treat, health concerns go right out the window. I remember that after finishing the entire loaf of bread during the morning, there was no need to stop for lunch, because of the severe case of heartburn/indigestion that lasted for another 300 miles. she made a loaf for thanksgiving last year, and I ate most of it. she makes really good banana bread and dinner rolls too.
The entire loaf!!
Crickey....what a garbage guts...
That would put a Wombat to shame..
I usually use cranberries in my scones - blueberries, apples & bananas in my bread (not in the same breads).
Morning...the food looks fantastic..
Spring and Summer are my favourite times of year..
Spring you don't notice it that much here as we have eucalyptus trees and they are green all year round..so it's the introduced species of trees that signify Spring and flowers like daffodils etc that were brought from England..
Summer...the sea, heat and Christmas time in the warm, not a snow flake in sight..and the mozzies and flies, throw in the Corellas and you know it's summer..
Corellas arrive in large flocks here from up North as they follow the wheat trains down..the wheat falls out of the carriages on to the tracks so free food..they return in Autumn..they are quite destructive birds and they can destroy crops within hours...
I used to enjoy Spring when I was young. The air smelled sweet and the sun was warming the earth, but now Spring is a muddy, slushy snowy affair. Kinda makes me sad. The early flowers pop their heads out and get lambasted by another snow storm.
Birds can be destructive - in our area it is crows - mostly spreading garbage from the bins that our neighbors don't cover.
bloody oz pigeon ...
I thought it was pretty
look at the beak on that flying dinosaur. imagine the horror with the oz version of hitchcock's "the birds" ...
no worse than a parrot
talking birds attacking people would be an interesting variation ...
Morning...geez nothing wrong with his beak.. perfectly normal for a Corella..beats a tiddly woodpecker..
If you are going to have a beak, have a real beak..sshheezzz...
Palm cockatoo they live up North..
Or better still get the longest beak in the world...
An Oz pelican...now that's a beak..
Get them where I live..
That cockatoo is gorgeous, and knows it.
We have many species of cockatoos and parrots..
Beautiful colours and some are great mimics..
I get alot of them around my home and love seeing and hearing them..
a gothic cockatoo ...
I just had breakfast a couple of hours ago, and it's still a couple hours to lunch, and your food images, expecially the apple breads, just gave me hunger pangs.
The bread was very tasty.
Autumn is my favorite season, love it! Still got some nice weather, but much cooler....
Mine too. I call it sweater-weather and I can make start making soups again.
It's time for chili.
I want to make split pea soup with ham but I will be the only one that eats it. I could always freeze it, I guess
I think I'll make that next weekend. Before the football game.
I made chicken noodle last weekend with a leftover rotisserie chicken. I make split pea after every holiday that we serve ham at. ...so after Christmas will be the next time.
I think I'll make some tomorrow or Saturday. The weather is improving, but the evenings will still be cool.
I usually do navy beans or pinto with a ham. But I'm hankering for some really good split pea soup. Or Potato and Leek
You are correct - of course our summer here sucked - no decent weather - it either rained or we had smoke alerts. I got in my pool only twice this year.
It is said that polling reveals fall to be the most popular season. I think there is a calling home inherent in fall. Plus there is less rain and no stifling heat.
I think you are right about the "calling home". It seems I want to be snuggled down inside my house more in the fall & winter.
I dont know if its just me, but fall seems to trigger the most memory and most self-reflection.
It's not just you. As I take my daily walks I reflect on my childhood memories of fall and how lucky I am to have gotten through. The air seems to cleanse my mind.
I think it's the smell of fall that does the memory triggers for me
That looks delicious, Veronica!
Fall weather is definitely here. I have the gas logs burning to take the chill out of the air. It's not all that cold, but it's a damp cold, and my joints feel it.
We had our fireplace going as well. I have to change out the sheets soon to put on the heated mattress cover and the flannel sheets. I hear you about the joints.
It was 94 where I live today and there is a Category 5 hurricane off the west coast of Mexico that is probably going to bring us the awful humidity again in a few days. I want it to cool off!
Yesterday started out for me at 44 and got to 65. Sweater weather.
I realize that correlation is not causation, but my joints tend to hurt a lot more around the seasonal changes. I used to think this was a trite cliche when older folk complained about this phenomenon.
I know - I used to roll my eyes at the complaints from my hubby's step-father.
I have arthritis in my hips and hands. Now I bitch about the cold weather. I also have a screw and a plate in my left ankle that aches when it gets really cold
It's my hips and my knees. My hands ache - but that's because I work on computers all day.
I have the same, plus 3 more screws, and I can point to them when the weather changes.
I assume that means you taken at leastmone course in statistics?