The Seasonal Supplement: Issue 10, Mid Summer
gathering fruit | watching butterflies | a rainy day film
We had been watching the cherries carefully. As the days passed, we saw them slowly swell and flash through muffled traffic light shades, from pale green to soft orange, then streaked red. They were almost ready. Then the rain came. Abrupt downpours of tubby droplets. The cherries ballooned, intensified their colour to a beetroot red, and split within h…