Our Happy Acres

The harvests last week seemed to mostly involve the colors green and red. In the green camp we had:
Arugula

Garlic Scapes

Lettuce

The broccoli was bluish-green
In the red zone we had:
Cherries

Strawberries

The radicchio harvest seemed to be both green and red:
Our most memorable meal from the week’s bounty was the day we made pesto and used it on pita [...]

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One of the things that made Happy Acres so attractive to us before we bought it was the large, mature trees in the back yard. Someone here long before us nurtured the trees, and allowed them to grow up into the giant specimens they are now. The biggest of the lot are two elms and [...]

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I took an opportunity this week to capture photos of some of our blooming plants. I started with the double flowering cherry tree. I believe it is a Kwanzan cherry, and it was literally covered in fluffy pink blossoms this spring.

Most of the blossoms have now fallen on the ground.

Some have fallen on the concrete [...]

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Today I made my first blog. Doesn’t that sound vaguely like a confession uttered at a twice-weekly meeting of geeks like me trying to kick their self-destructive computer habits? It’s not like I am computer illiterate, or averse to technology. Rather, after spending many years working in the IT field (more years than I care [...]

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