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| Front garden at our Maitland River trailer. A wet and windy day created this botanical sculpture. |
Some scenes from around home always work for me.
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| Those of you who know our driveway are aware of the steep dropoff on the north side. This is a sanctuary for wild flora that thrives on a northern slope. Underlying all of this is a tenacious bed of groundcover, but you would never know it considering the numerous invaders from above. It is tempting to smooth the hill out and plant grass, but just look at the pleasure it gives for two months every year. |
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| This is a shot of our neighbour's field. For you city slickers, this is a field of soyabeans or soybeans if you prefer. They have lost their foliage and are dry enough to harvest. By the way, the camera was level is this photo. The land drops away to the creek. |
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| Our foundation plantings have been pretty much replaced owing to severe deer damage last winter. As well the bushes under the front windows were too large and too woody. I use the tractor to pull them out. |
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| Chris Goris combining the black beans on our place. If you click on the picture to enlarge it you can see his daughter in the cab with him. The beans yielded 2500 lbs. per acre. At $.45 per lb. things are looking good for Chris who is an extremely hard worker. |
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| This is not the best photo, but Mary loves this tree. The colour was a rich golden orange. Two days after this photo was taken the tree was bare and the ground was 5 inches thick with leaves because we had no wind. The leaves simply fell. No wind, just gravity. We dug these trees out of the back of our property in 1975 and hauled them up in our 69 Mercury. They were 8' sapplings then and we didn't know anything about trees or much else for that matter. We lost one to lightning and another to a herbicide spill. They took about five years to become established and have done well ever since. |
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