Every year we anxiously await the pomegranate season. Then we anxiously await pomegranates to go on sale! And when they do, we make an investment in some serious and healthy family fun time. The only draw back to these amazing fruits is that they are really messy, and the glorious juice stains everything it touches.  So everyone gets on some old clothes, grabs a cutting board and a knife, and gets to work.

It’s a special treat for each person to get his/her own pomegranate.

I remember as a child my mother always put a pomegranate in each of our Christmas stockings, along with other fruits and nuts. We were as excited to get those as we were the candy, and we usually ate them for breakfast Christmas morning.

Pomegranates are to Fall and Winter what berries are to Spring and Summer.

I am seriously considering upholstering my dining room chairs in a pomegranate red. Then I would never have to worry about stains again.

Happy Fall, Everyone!