Saturday, May 27, 2006

Planting time and wild things



More and more critters are around as the field grass becomes tall and the apple blossoms begin to fall off of the trees. The ferns seem to grow a foot a day. We're hoping to get out on the river this weekend to kayak as the recent rains have made for good water level.

This is a woodchuck/groundhog that Chena and Sulatna warned into a tree the other day.

The apple tree is one that only blossoms this beautifully about every three years. It's an old tree and has the best apples, almost like a transparent. She's in all of her glory this year. Two of the three new apple trees made it through the winter as well. We have about 20 apple trees throughout.

Had a medium sized pine snake in the yard yesterday, very unfazed by the dogs skirting it. Hopefully it's after my red ant population.

In a few days I'll plant my seedlings , hoping to not get an early June frost. This year I have pumpkins, the usual sunflowers and native Alaskan wildflowers, including fireweed.

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