Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Until Then Had Been


Was it late last summer when my neighbor fired up his pizza oven? 


Meteorologically warm, yet cool to the skin, and moisture so deep it rises over fields and edges and the tragic flesh of collapsing gourds.



This was late summer, last year.


What until then had been?


Amazed and horrified by my productivity and fruitlessness.


Sunday, September 10, 2017

Meanderings

Four year old buckwheat seed still a hearty sprouter in this year's garlic field. A fast-growing cover crop, it is now tilled in.


My neighbor's giant pumpkin patch: all those leaves to support one pumpkin.


My tray seeded royal catchfly, Silene regia, finally flowers, weakly, in its first year.


Eastern tiger swallowtail grabbing a drink from a rain filled cell tray.


A frog poking its head out of the same. 


The tomato patch, post tomato. One plant has retained a healthy posture, but continues to blight its fruit. The plants directly to the right are peppers, unaffected by the blight. The container near the hydrangea are potatoes that have somehow, to date, resisted succumbing. I pulled all the plants, anyway, leaving the tubers in the ground for my picking as needed. The tomato plants filled three 45 gallon trash bags.


The very green Eastern gray tree frog, notably Hyla versicolor, on its spiked throne.