Stay Gold

Of fall leaves and wild grapes

Mountain Grape by Hisui Sugiura (1876-1965), included in Hisui Hyakkafu (Album of One Hundred Flowers by Hisui) published in 1920-22

Last weekend I drove up to my favourite spot for collecting wild grapes. Deep in the valley and up the hill a bit there’s a dead-end gravel road that ends in the property that you used to be able to ski over to in the winte…