Autumn in the Market

By this time of the year, a special kind of madness gets all of us: the winter preparations, the preserves. Maybe it's the hard winters we sometimes have, maybe the long years when food was so hard to find and a jar of pickles was pure gold, maybe tradition. Maybe we even enjoy it. But people behave like famine would start next week. The markets are full with everything that can make you get to work or get fat: bell-peppers, long peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, cucumbers, horse radish, corn cobs, beans, zucchinis, apples, pears, grapes, melons, peaches....everything. And the fat king of the market: the pumpkin! Autumn's faithful companion. Then you buy jars and other recipients for the pickles or jam, lids and the rest. Then you roll up your sleeves.
And only the yellow leaves have time to rest on the bench, in the mild sun. And the autumn.