Apples, Apples and more Apples.

Every other year we have a huge apple crop.

What to do with all those apples. 

If you live in this little town you can take them to the Post Office and leave them by the door.  

Soon they will have found a new home.  

I'll get the ladders out and invite my friends and neighbors. 

The pig farmer gathers the fallen apples

and the deer take care of the rest.  

 The apple press is rolled out again. 

It's easier going if we first cut up the apples into smaller pieces.  

 The most intensely flavored and concentrated apple juice  is the result. 

The light frost made them sweet and ready to pick.

Have you seen this little wonder of an apparatus?

It peels, cores and slices, all with one motion, apples and pears and potatoes.

And pears already picked.

For the perfect pear pie. 

 There are many more apples to pick and/or press.  

Have a lovely week my dear friends. 

Gina 

Back Home

And happy to be here.

Lot's of work waiting for me.

It was a very good year.
Every fruit tree is laden.

Canadian Geese never left.
They are gorging themselves on fallen apples and pears. 





Clyde and Lola have decided to get along with the interlopers after all.

Have already filled many shelves in the cellar.

Lakota squash are stored. 

Love them all, flowers and fruit.

Himrod grapes take longer to ripen
Interlaken grapes were harvested before we left for Europe.

A few stragglers left.

I don't think that the little apple tree will make it through the winter.  
We will try and prop it up and see what happens. 
It bears delicious apples.  Don't want to lose it.







Time to admire the evening light and recharge.

Hope you are taking time out to enjoy your surroundings.  

Gina

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Can't help myself

Must go to Italy 
and a few places in between. 

Enough of bottling and canning.

It's time to make new discoveries. 

The rest of the pears can wait.

Bon Voyage dear Friends. 

See you soon. 

Gina 

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Mon Bouquet du jour

A lovely group of people, from the Museum of Fine Arts Department, Salt Lake City

stopped by to see the house and gardens

and my hand painted ceramics displayed in a handsome wooden plate rack carved by my very own Mr G.

 Pasha elected to stay in the Library.

Our chickens never made an appearance.

Clyde, Hansel and Lola came out of the pond for a little while.

No one saw the juvenile owl.

The ducks took cover in the tall grasses. 

Lucy loves everyone and she was everywhere amongst the visitors.  

Pears

Apples

grapes and 

Plums were ready for the picking.

The sun was shining, the last roses brightened the day.  


Have a great week ahead.  
Thank you for stopping by.
Your visits are always so appreciated. 

Gina 

We are lucky this year.

Even though the apricot blossoms froze early this Spring, we have, for the first time in many years,  peaches, beautiful peaches. 

We had no fruit last year.  Not even apples, pears or plums.  Everything froze. 

We had grapes.  But a horde of flies came by and in two days sucked every bit of juice out of every grape.  

This year is different.

Even my old roses made it through the cold winter and my Sweet Peas have never looked better.

And peaches, Early Albertas appeared on the trees as if by magic. 

We will have Asian Pears and Apples and Plums and hardy winter Pears.  

The kitchen garden is overflowing.

And we will have grapes.  They are almost ripe and I don't see many flies.

We captured them, by the millions, lured into a terrible smelling trap.  


Have a great remainder of the week. 

Gina 

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Peaches and pears are ripe

Must bottle a few for cold winter months. 

If you can find the smaller, rosy cheeked, cling free peaches, those are the peaches you will want to can.   

A recipe of light syrup (6 cups of sugar to 8 cups of water) is perfect for peaches.  Not too sweet so you can still taste the delicate flavor of an Early Alberta Peach. 

Ready to be put away.

Must leave a few to eat au natural.

Have a great remainder of the week my dear friends, 

Gina 

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Winter Pears

Winter Pears, the finest Pear of them all

Not all are perfect

But then there are the show stoppers.  Indescribably sweet and delicious

Pick them when they're still green

Let them ripen in a bowl, at room temperature

A ripe pear, a well aged hunk of cheese, nothing could be better

We can't eat them all, these are for sharing with friends and visitors

We left a few for you to pick ... at the very top of our tree

Gina