Totin an Ulster made Craftsman Stockman and Vic 7.


More autumn colors from my yard ~
At our first house, 40 yrs ago, our neighbor, Eileen had a sugar maple. I took two seeds from it and planted them in my little garden. When we bought this place 50 miles north, I brought the two seedlings along.
They're both the same age, but the one by the garden got a rock enclosure with good black soil, while the one by the end of the driveway did not.
Hard to beat the colors of sugar maples in the fall.

This is some domestic variety of Blackberry. It had started with a little row of plants on the neighbor's side, but invaded our side, eventually becoming a huge, impenetrable bramble thicket. They long since had enough of the wicked thorns, and got rid of them on their side. I have always had hopes of a productive blackberry patch, and have spent years cutting paths, and pruning dead canes, but I think I'm done with it. Time to go. I have never been rewarded with a decent berry harvest.
The wild black raspberries on my property reliably provide all the berries we can eat ~ I have gallons in the freezer which will last us til next year's picking time.
Anyway, blackberries turn a pretty shade of red in the fall.
