Fruit Picking Socks
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Description: "Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. [...]" (Seamus Heaney) This digitally rendered work is based on a photo I shot during last year's harvest. This years' is about to start. Tarts, jam and juice comin' right up! (Canon EOS 60D DSLR, edits and watercolor rendering in Photoshop CS6)
