IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!

For the longest time, like most people I've equated the late summer and autumn season with pumpkins, sunflowers, Indian corn, wheat husks, maizes and jack-o-lanterns, chilly nights and bright blue skies hovering in sunny days that turn the leaves golden and crimson.

Black Walnuts, of all things!

Now, though? While fall is still my very favorite time of year and I celebrate it's entrance, I also get cheesed up over ... black walnuts. Of all things, Debra!

Growing up in rural Michigan with five giant black walnut trees framing the drive of the farm across the road, I’d collected many a happy memory, reading and playing under the shade of those massive trees with my younger brother, Larry…