Certainly this blog is far from getting high prioity with all the end of summer things to do. Getting produce harvested from the garden and put up for the winter. Berries are still coming out our ears. Very good black berries and still some strawberries, and the last of the fall raspberries are slowly maturing with some warm fall days. Pole beans call for a picking every 3-4 days. The winter squash is maturing and who really knows how many are out under all the lush green folage this year. Corn has been struggling to mature, had a cool start and some what late also.
Amid the busy season of preserving comes the call for a return to the books. Difficult as it is to spend large portions of the day in side, the beckoning call of the book of nature calls pulls for time to read it mysteries that are steadily closing up for the winter. Today when getting in some potatoes Beth found a nest of tiny earthworms, translucent and minuscule. We wondered if they were neomtoads but they acted so much like baby earth worms we dismissed the other. They were nestled in a section of broken down alfalfa pellets we had added to the potato bed for nitrogen and mulch. Unfortunatly the camera was in the house, and it was getting a little dark to photograph tiny things well.
However we had a most spectacular sunset painted on over hanging clouds. It deeped into firey orange and red getting continually deeper until it was lost in the darkening sky. It was brilliant. Far to large to tak the whole sky in with a camera – maybe a panorama. That’s the way it is living on a hill top- you can’t possibly experience a 360 view with one picture.
Have yet to learn how to get pictures into my blog page. But at least today with the girls help we found a new look!
Happy harvest and study time in and out of books!!
~originally posted Sept 26, 2010 moved here
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