Chief Blogger is back again following another absence! This time, exploring a tiny fraction of the Canadian shield in Ontario. Verdict: a fabulous intensity to the autumn colours of the sugar maples, immense natural beauty and unimaginable amounts of wood and numbers of freshwater lakes!
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| 1 plant=4 pumpkins |
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| Apple crop |
Anyway it's back to work and the first job was to pick all the remaining apples and my 4 pumpkins. Yes, I know there are only 3 in the photo! That's because the 4th has been made into a very colourful and spicy pumpkin soup. Frankly, I think that's about the only way pumpkins can be eaten. There was a surfeit of sickly sweet pumpkin pie in Canada and the soup is so deliciously velvety smooth, I don't know why you would ever want to add sugar and put it in a pie crust. Sadly, due to the bounteous apple crop this year, we are having to store ours before they can be juiced and bottled.
There is still a surprising amount of colour in the garden and only a small proportion of leaves have fallen. I expected to return to bare trees. It's still very mild and a hardy fuchsia which has managed to grow out between the joints in the stone wall deserves to remain. Who would combine brilliant pink with violent orange and dare to be seen? Only in nature such as this Spindle could such a colour combination look so good!
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| Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) |
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| Hardy Fuchsia |
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