James McDowell - Pears
22 x 14 - oil on canvas - $200.00
Another great market day and sold all but one of the 39 loaves and all but a few cookies and muffins which seem to get consumed in between. I thought I had retired from the Farmers Market but we do enjoy the people. It means I am baking 3 days a week and cooler weather will only be a treat.
Fall is in the air. I hate to have to break this bit of news.
The dragon flies are dancing all along the road from our place to Hwy 21 and the starlings, who were split up and raising families earlier are now flocking together.
There were over a dozen swallows swooping along in front of us this evening as we drove home and lining up along the wires.
We need a nice l-o-n-g fall to give things in the garden, stunted by our long cold spring, a chance to mature.
Some unsettling news is that there has been the problem of grizzlies digging big holes into our local dump. The refuse is buried nightly but then the critters were digging caves into it so "they" have fenced the dump - and the airport because the elk were getting on the runway.
Our property buts up against the golf course and across the road from it is the dump so it isn't very far away as the bear ambles.
Earlier this summer we had a bear amble through a couple nights and it bent the pipe my bird feeder was on down at a 45 degree angle. Now "they" have closed all the hiking trails near the Airport and dump because of grizzly bear activity: there is a large sow with her nearly adult sized cubs. This is not happy news.
I would like her to take her young-uns back up in the mountains away from us on the valley floor. Unfortunately, because the dump activity went on for a couple years, these bears are habituated to human food.
2 comments:
Saw your comment on Paula Cravens blog and came over to say hello. I'm fascinated by your life journey from Canada to the US and back. I can tell you that I, too, hate the right wing nasties and their fear and power mongering.
You live in the most beautiful place - the weather being almost the polar opposite of what it is here in the south with a summer of 95 + since the end of May.
I paged back to see your beautiful birdhouses, knitted hats, and James wonderful paintings and sculpture. It's a beautiful life you've made for yourselves!
Hi James and Nora, We have a few things in common-- I love to go to Farmers markets and buy baked goods.
Though I do a lot of gardening outside I do not grow much vegetables and I do not do much baking. It does look like between the baking, gardening and painting you keep quite busy. You have a lovely blog here.
donna watson
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