Sept. 1, 2022 This
is this year's sweet corn harvest. It is now wrapped and parceled
out to a few friends, and primarily frozen wrapped individually in
reused aluminum foil for a treat through the winter. It was
a challenging season, with coldest spring on record resulting in a lot
of the seeds molding before sprouting. Up to half of the crop was
lost, but we're grateful for what made it...
Sept. 3 Butterfly on one of our dahlias...
Sept. 4 I
got invited to record a possibly final bluegrass concert for a local
band last weekend. After a week I got the videos editing and
posted to Youtube: http:/www.sondahl.com/kpb.html is the webpage I created to go with it...
Sept.
9th. At this time of year goldfinches, nuthatches, and chickadees
are still around feeding and bathing in our back yard. We have a
patch of self seeding chicory (which is fairly common as a weed along
highways). The blue flowers are pretty, but the leaves are like
a giant dandelion, and it looks pretty ragged. Anyway, it turns
out the goldfinches love the seeds: Goldfinches feeding on our chicory seeds
Here's a dragonfly on chokecherries, from a bike ride up Brickel Creek I took today (17 miles round trip)
Sept. 11 The
wildfire smoke is back, from 1700 acre fires nearby or larger ones in
Oregon and Washington... This photo shows the smoggy sky near
dawn as mist rises up from the mill pond to meet it...
Sept. 18 Earlier
this summer, our two year old granddaughter did some path choosing on a
walk near Farragut State Park. It led to a concrete but very
organic looking pool on a tiny creek... I wasn't on that walk, but we went there with friends yesterday, and here are two photos:
Sept 22 We
got a local getaway yesterday, to an area north of Clark Fork we've
explored before... 23,000 steps later, here are the photos... We were fairly high, so skinny alpine firs predominated, some festooned with old man's beard moss...
As
we approached Lake Darling, the ground appeared to have a lot of grass
hoppers. But a closer look yielded these tiny frogs
This
is Lake Darling, which, on the two mile walk back the the car, brought
up the issue of why some lakes are Lake ____ and others are
_____Lake. Like nobody calls Spirit Lake-- Lake Spirit,
or Lake Superior --Superior Lake. Lake Darling was near
Moose Lake, and no one would call it Lake Moose...
This is a telephoto close up of the mountain behind the lake. The gray patches are broken rock, or talus, slopes.\
Next
we returned to Char Falls, whose old wood sign was replaced with a
plastic Forest Service brown fence post that said THEFALLS reading down
it. The falls itself was hard to photograph due to the lovely
sunshine, as it also dappled these pools leading toward the falls.
A
new falls for me was Wellington Falls, a 45 minute walk down an
unmarked logging road and a scramble along a steep hill required
to get this viewpoint. The light was fading but that added to
the artistic blurring of the falls. by September the falls are
all shadows of their spring glory, but still lovely.
\ This is a closeup of the upper falls...
books read
Currently enjoying:
The
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1) by Becky Chambers.
Good universe building and character development...
