A basket of cranberries, Concord, MA. Iphone photograph. (c) DE Wolf 2016.

Well under the assumption that poisoned mushroom tea is not your thing. I thought that I would post something a bit more appetizing today. Here is a basket of New England cranberries, lusciously red. Like everything else this year of the El Niño drought, the cranberry crop is suffering here in New England. Water levels are low and there is not enough water to flood the bogs around Cape Cod. Some growers are dry-picking their berries and some have even resorted to handpicking.

Still the cranberry remains as a great icon – a symbol – of the fall harvest, cranberry sauce, cranberry juice, and cranberry stuffing. And of course all of these herald the coming Thanksgiving feast. Nothing speaks to Massachusetts like the cranberry.

Photographically I was so taken by the shiny redness. Despite having my Canon T2i with me, I opted for taking the close-up with my IPhone and then deep cropped the image so that there was no distractions from the field of crimson.