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Walkabout

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Walkabout
Chocolate lilly, just about to open up.

Looks like Sitka Roses.

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Looks like Sitka Roses.
Vintage wallpaper in a bathroom. Late 1970s estimated installation.

Fall Florals

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Fall Florals

Blooms N Things

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Blooms N Things
My flowers were blooming for me when we got home from fishcamp.

Harvest Season

We spent Sunday morning foraging. Niki, Mo, Thing 1 & I. City Hall has some crab apple trees and an abundance of rosehips that we harvested for jelly making.

Loaded little crab apple tree.

While there we enjoyed each other’s company and solved all the world’s problems. We also enjoyed the flower beds and various different trees planted around the premises.

Dusty Miller in the Soldotna City Hall flower garden.

We found a large patch of wild roses and harvested a nice amount of rosehips. Thing 1 had a good time practicing plant identification for her Botany class.

We harvested enough crab apples for jelly, cider, sauce… You get the idea

Cut leaf weeping Birch.

Also enough to share with others. Part of the joy of wildcrafting is sharing with others.

Some ornamental foundation shrubs.
More flowers at City Hall.
Another bed relatively untouched by the frost.

We also had to harvest our own plants. Lil Bit planted several herbs for her Botany class last year. They did very well and we’ve enjoyed fresh basil, cilantro and parsley this summer.

Lil Bit’s parsley she grew from seed. Harvested to use in our matzo ball soup for Sukkot.

Alas, Old Man Winter is knocking at the door. Time to harvest as much as we can. Hoping for another cranberry picking soon. And a moose.

And afterwards we went for coffee.

#aklife #foraging #wildcrafting #bounty

Good-bye summer!

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Good-bye summer!
Fireweed is almost done. Winter is coming

Be My Valentine

Our Valentine’s Day was sweet. Dean went all out with flowers, steak dinner, cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert. And a box of chocolates of course.

Green orchids. So lovely in full bloom.

Orchids surprisingly do quite well here. My Mother’s Day orchid from a few years ago is still happy in my downstairs bathroom window. I do enjoy them so.

#aklife

#flowersthatlast

#iloveyouday

Fireweed

English: Fireweed – Epilobium angustifolium

English: Fireweed – Epilobium angustifolium (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The fireweed is in bloom, has been for
a couple of weeks now. I’ve longed to see it since I was here in ’94.
The Northern Lights are the only thing I still long to see here in
The Great Land now that I’m enjoying the fireweed!

 

The flowers are vibrant, bright pink
and tall, my Seester would love them! I hear tell there’s a place
down by Homer that has hills that are simply covered with the it and
it looks like the hills are on fire. I hope to see that soon.

 

Fireweed is our signal that summer is
nearing its end. Our daylight hours are already starting to wane.
This time next month we will really be noticing the difference.