Sooo Good!

Around Labor Day these babies are going to be dark purple and ready to be made into grape juice, gallons and gallons of it. (I tried wine one year. A lot of work for some REALLY BAD, undrinkable wine.)

This is Bear. Last night he was expecting a treat from me, not a stupid photo op. (Treats came later.)

I found out some people don't really care for frogs (Yay! I got a comment! Thanks!) so this post will move the frog photo further down on the page.

I hope to be doing some renaming and reorganizing of this blog in the near future. I may even post more often! I have to think about this...

Look what I found in the flower bed today. I believe it's a Northern Leopard Frog and I think it might be "threatened". I've never seen one here before. It's been a fairly wet summer so maybe he/she is enjoying the dampness.

The Hopa crab apple tree is particularly beautiful this year, despite the fact that I never get around to pruning it.

January Blahs

Not gravel dust this time, but snow. Lots of snow. I'd rather have the dust, I think.

 

Seed Corn

Labor Day. The fields of seed corn around us are being harvested. That means semis full of the ears of seed corn have been driving past our place all day. They stir up clouds of thick, choking gravel dust. Not a good day to hang out wash, have the house windows open, or even to be outside.