Something a Bit Different but Still Yarn Related

I have a very small orchard, vineyard and berry patch.  Truth be told, it's a dwarf pear tree (5 varieties on one trunk), 2 dwarf apple trees (one red delicious and one 5 on 1), a dwarf peach, 8 raspberry bushes, 2 black berry bushes, 2 concord grape vines.  My fruit is extra yummy because it is picked at the peak of ripeness.  Tonight I am canning 3 quarts of grape juice concentrate.  There's a fourth in the refrigerator because there isn't enough in the jar for safe canning.  But I digress.

The part that gets me is the colors of autumn and harvest season.  Over winter the canes of the berry patch give a nice red to mahogany color to the landscape.  The grapes get cut back.  The trees are all bare.

Come spring, the colors really get going.  New leaves come out in varying degrees of green and in some cases red to purple.  The apple trees have a dirty-ish white flower.  The peach tree has delicate pink flowers as do the raspberry bushes.  The pear tree has white to the very palest pink flowers.  Blackberries have a white to a very pale peach color.  The grapes have a green tone flower.

Once a decent summer shows up, the leaves deepen in color and the fruits start growing.  This year with 2 months of almost continual rain was not ideal.  The berries start growing in maroon hairy sepals.  When they burst open they are bright red and darken to deep purple.  The grapes are green ripening to dark purple blue.  The peaches and apples also start hard, small and green.  As they ripen in their seasons, they change colors.

In autumn, the fruits are long eaten or preserved and their leaves turn colors.  This is dependent on the weather, just like most of the other changes.  The apples, pear and peach leaves usually turn brown.  The grapes turn a beautiful chartreuse.  The berries turn a beautiful dark red.  Some years the colors are spectacular.

Then there are years like this.  This year the colors that have changed so far have  been mostly drab in color.

The colors have inspired me to look for yarns in these colors.  I want to knit fingering weight shawls in these autumnal colors.   This is so unlike me.  I have on my calendar to knit or crochet 2 sweaters for my beautiful 7 year old granddaughters in San Diego, a sweater for a grandson who is 5, a sweater for a 2 year old grand son and something for our newest granddaughter.