Prim's posies and projects

Your garden has me in overwhelm!! How incredibly beautiful.

Jan, on the road in Eureka Springs AR

 

I have just to night found all your beautiful flowers .I am so jealous of your yard .The whole thing is a site to behold.

 

My first look also and I am properly jealous.

 

What a nice pot and the color of the tree makes me home sick.

 

Thank you! I have moved away from Oregon a few times in my life and we have always come back. I would be quite homesick away from here too.

This past week we've been harvesting our grapes, the white ones first (mediocre) and now the concords (wonderful!) Thought I'd take a snap of them while picking, they are always so pretty -



This is my steamer-juicer, a marvel indeed. All I do is fill the bottom with water, the top with about a bucket and a half of grapes and put on the lid. Boil it for an hour and the little rubber spigot on the front gives me about 3 quarts of good organic purple grape juice. Yum! I'm freezing it in quart bags for now, probably have a few more quarts to go before I run out of grapes. I could make quite a lot of jelly if I had the mind to, but so far we're just drinking it. We call it "milking the purple cow" LOL...

 

The grapes are beautiful and that is a handy little apparatus.

 

Great machine. Better grapes. How lucky you are in OR to be able to grow grapes.

 

Well, the grapes are all gone - I just raked up the leaves that had all turned to mush with the first frost and the arbor is looking so brown and bare - but there is plenty going on in other parts of the yard.

I cannot remember what these are called - anyone? It is about 6 ft. tall and has long, arching sprays of leaves and scads of orange berries in the fall. Lots of nice color.



Also took this shot of a rather mundane bit of grass in the back yard caught in the rays of the sunset - it looked like it was ablaze, so golden!

 

Don't know the berries, but the grass photo is sublime.

 

I second that, Jan. The grass does look as though it is on fire. Nice photo.

Muddy

P.S.
Primsong, did you weather the storm well? Up here, we are having to give hunters a ride out of the woods by helicopter because the roads washed out.

 

I thought the grass was fireworks at first.

 

Thanks - I saw it out the window and ran for the camera before the sun could sink any further.

I considered pyrocantha, but it has no thorns and grows differently... I'm a bit stumped.