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| Scribbles Challenge 51, Fall at my house. |
Fall is welcomed. We don’t have a real fall color display, only a few tree varieties have colored leaves. The Liquidambar trees, the pistachios, and ornamental pears turn orange, gold, and red. They are used for landscaping quite a bit. But with the exception of the large sycamores, and the cottonwoods turning gold, there aren’t colorful native varieties to take a drive to see.
The temperature remains 70 degrees , plus or minus a couple. I’ll take a sweater with me in the evenings. ‘in case.’
The fireplace is stacked with kindling and split eucalyptus,and avocado wood, waiting for a cool evening.
Mallards and wood ducks have been flying in to the lake, making a noisy entrance. They have been gone since spring. It’s nice to see the wildlife return. I’ll start saving stale bread for them.
Our persimmon trees hang heavy with delicious orange fruit. The crisp variety ‘Fuyu’, like an apple. It is $4.99 a pound in the grocery, I feel decadent.
The apple trees also have a nice crop. I make apple pie fillings and freeze them. The rest are for eating out of hand, and to give away.
The garden is waiting for some rototilling, and fresh, or rather aged, compost. Then I- actually we, will put in mesclun salad varieties, chard, spinach, collard greens. (good for you) and other winter vegetables. A few anyway. The fall garden is so much easier to care for than the summer one.
That is Fall at my house. A quieting, mellowing of the air, the sounds of waterfowl, and the smell of woodsmoke. Welcome Fall.
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Posted by circe on 2009-11-02 12:23:48 | Rating: | Views: 53
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