Wednesday 10 September 2008

In the Mood


Drunken Chestnuts
Dancing on an upside-down
Lopsided Champagne glass


10 comments:

  1. I love these chestnut pictures! They are the perfect symbol of fall...the color and texture. Cute title! :)

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  2. Ooh yum, two posts worth of chestnuts! Nothing better than roasted chestnuts as autumn's chill starts to descend. I seem to recall that the Hungarians do a very nice chestnut dessert though for the moment the name escapes me.

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  3. WOW!
    Fall with a BANG!!!
    Love thsi chestnut shot :)

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  4. What a beautiful Blake poem which I hadn't read before.
    Thank you!

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  5. These really are beautiful fall images--the sheen on those chestnuts is just exquisite! Love the textures.

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  6. Amazing clarity.
    Reminding me that there is a definite "art" to roasting these things. Because one Christmas, my family butchered a goodly amount of perfectly good and innocent chestnuts.... they were all mushy.
    We overdid it.
    Proper chestnutting is an art!
    Your photos only confirm the fact!

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  7. Our chestnuts outer shells look different from these - ours are really hairy and spiky.
    I'm a big chestnut fan - raw, boiled, roasted, microwaved - love 'em and I only came to them later in life. We didn't even know what they were in tropical Queensland where I grew up - although we were very familiar with Macadamias !!!!

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  8. But these are horse chestnuts, are they not? And not the same as the sweet chestnuts mentioned, which do come in spikier, softer cases. It is a delightful image though, edible or not!

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  9. Great close-up - truly autumn photo!

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