Those Rickin'-Rackin' Mice Again
Posted on Tuesday 29 August 2006 at 10:38 in Lifestyle - Post Comment
Would you just look at this! How frustrating is this!
This beautiful, giant tomato, and it actually doesn't have blossom end rot - it's been so dry, I've lost so much fruit - and this is the one they have to chew up. They couldn't possibly eat the fruit with a bad patch on the bottom, could they?
Argh. I hate them.
On to more peaceful thoughts. To answer Jackie's
question, yes, we are thankfully a four-season area. We don't have the
beautiful colours like the east coast, some years. It depends on the
type of fall.
Years with a sharp, hard frost to start the fall
result in the leaves just turning brown and dropping. If we get an
extended period of cool with little or no frost, we get some colour.
Interestingly, the grasses are almost more beautiful. One of my
favourite fall locations is the army shooting range between Brandon and
Wawanesa. It's closed to public access, but there are roads that go
along beside it. Because it's covered in wild, uncut grass, you see the
most amazing shades of red, orange, gold and green all together.
The trees in our immediate area, being mostly poplar, will give a
beautiful gold display, with the underbrush lighting up in red and
orange from dogwood and chokecherry. Places with oak also take on a
bronze tone. It's quite something.
Well, no frost predicted
yet this week. We'll see how things hold out. The garden is pretty well
shutting down, though. And here, I was complaining to myself about such
a long season, since we started seedlings in March. Can't wait for next
March now. Silly me.
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