Thursday, August 27, 2009

potato harvest


Ah, one of the sweet moments of home gardening. Dumping all your potatoes out like candy from trick-or-treating. Seeing the loot. I put 10 pounds of potato seed in the ground and I got back 125 pounds. That's better than a twelve fold increase. The first basket gets the biggest ones, and on down to the last basket of midgets. This year more green ones than usual: I couldn't hoe up the rows as high as I usually do because they had been planted too close.

Monday, August 24, 2009

invasion of the mushrooms




The huge, 10-inch umbrella mushroom giganticus faded away. Wide didn't work. Let's try pencil-thin. If the soup is over that-a way, let's take a walk this-a way.


Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Montreal vacation

A selection of our Aug. 9 through Aug. 13 vacation in old Montréal.

Monday, August 17, 2009

portabella, step aside




This has got to be genus mushroomus species giganticus. It makes a portabella look puny. This bad boy popped up in the shade of a bush in a flower bed. Ryan found it. It's got a young'un already. I'm not taking chances.