Back Home for Winter

 

 

 

 

Even after a large part of our summer was spent in Alaska, we were still able to come home and enjoy the last of the fruits of summer.  Our tomatoes were still barely hanging on, and I was able to put up some tomatoes, and enjoy a few Italian meals with fresh tomato sauce.

A neighbor gave us these beautiful figs and they were sun dried.  Having limited experience with figs, I wasn't even sure I liked them, but these were so sweet and chewy after a couple days in the sun.  The vibrant color of this particular variety, and the ease with which bags full came off the tree convinced me that I like figs after all.

 

 

 

Back to square one in the high tunnel where the old tomato plants were cleaned up.  We have tidied up in there and have winter greens and lettuces planted in four rows.  Another has snow peas in it. Just four more to go before we have the whole tunnel planted.  What a great feeling that will be!

 

  The sight of these bright green rows beginning to poke up as we round the corner into the holiday season makes me have to admit that I have totally cheated winter again this year; go right from a growing season in one climate to another season somewhere else! For someone trying to learn the intracicies of plants everywhere, this is an ideal situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life, as always continues to hold joys big and small, and lots of happiness and wonder wherever we happen to be together. ~