I’m not sure I like this, but this white stuff signals the end of the gardening season for this year. Time to drain the hoses, and put up the shovels. Maybe start a fire in the woodstove, brew up a little hot chocolate, find some warm cozy socks and blanket . . . hmmm, maybe not so bad after all?
A few fall images from around these parts!
Gaura ‘Belleza Dark Pink’
Oakleaf hydrangea ‘Snow Queen’
Fall decorations
Random road scene
‘Red Fire’ lettuce
Artichoke blossom and sweet potato vine
Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister’
Japanese maple ‘Viridis’ and ‘Hameln’ grass
Everything is popping out and it is starting to look very lush around here. Hard to keep up with taking pictures of the individual flowers so I’m posting a few scenic landscape pictures today.
Those are blueberry blossoms in the lower right of the last picture. I’m anticipating a bumper crop … if the birds and chipmunks don’t get them first!
Oh yeah! Maple syrup! We made our annual trek to Moore’s Maple Shack and Pancake House near Arcade NY yesterday and ate our fill of the never-ending buttermilk pancake stacks. And we picked up some of our favorite goodies in addition to several gallons of the good stuff.
The Moores have been making maple syrup for six generations! From the first hobby operation in the 1960’s using buckets and horse drawn tubs, they currently have 4,500 taps and miles of tubing and pumps to bring the sap to the Sugar Shack and their state-of-the-art reverse osmosis units for processing into delicious maple syrup.
We have been going there since before they built the Pancake House in 1985 and always enjoy chatting with the family. They love to give you a tour of their maple operation and we learn new things every time. Plus they have delicious pancakes, “all-you-can-eat!” Visit their website at www.mooresmaple.com or their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/mooresmaple) to check the dates when the Pancake House is open or where you can find their products.
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