Pumpkin Pups

Every day I am getting a bumper crop of pumpkins and squash.

The squash vines have made a long path through tall grass and over the little stream.

The colors in the garden are just fabulous.    Every vegetable contributing their own unique color to the food rainbow.

Mavis likes to lay down where ever I start stacking the garden harvest for the day.

Lots of swiss chard, green and yellow sweet peppers, red hot peppers and carrots are still producing well.

The trees in the neighborhood are also starting to "fire up" as well.

The herd continues to enjoy the bounties from the garden and from friend's apple trees.

Happy Cows eat Vermont garden snacks.

~ Life is Good

Mr. Winter Visits

Yesterday morning snow desended and wrapped itself around leaves, veggies and the last of the delicious fruit in the garden.  I call this a "sugar dusting" of snow.

The mountains have been redecorted in pearls of white and the remaining  pumpkins in the fields look ready for Hallowen.

Did I mention that during the floods of 3 weeks ago that 160,000+ pumpkins went floating down the Connecticut River when that river overflowed its banks and pirated several hundred acres of prime pumpkins down the river?  It was a sight to behold.  Lots of videos about it online. browse: "Connecticut River pumpkins" to see some very unusual phots and video.  There are still thousands of pumpkins stuck in trees now that the river has gone down a bit from flood level.

By this morning most of the snow had melted, all was back to normal, except there was more snow on the mountains and more fog in the valley.

It is getting colder.     Time to stack more wood!