November's Garden Tomatoes

Tomatoes Still

The last 4 tomatoes from the garden pulled in weeks ago before the frost. Fresh garden tomatoes in Maine November 11. We will enjoy them, and think of summer again.

Fall's Long Shadows

Long Shadows

Alewive Pund Farm

Long shadows this morning with Indian Summer balm. You could feel the autumn chill like rivulets of air, or roots spreading out here and there, not yet able to take hold of the passing summer, but close. The long shadows made for crisp colors.

Long Shadows

Alewive Pund Farm

Long shadows this morning with Indian Summer balm. You could feel the autumn chill like rivulets of air, or roots spreading out here and there, not yet able to take hold of the passing summer, but close. The long shadows made for crisp colors and a sharper contrast. It occurred to me that you could look out at the pond and it would never be the same, as the seasons and lighting changes it is different moment to moment, and somehow that is a very calming thought. Some reminders of constant change are less soothing--this felt like a meandering stream moving by, or the spring that feeds the pond.

Meet Piccadilly an Icelandic Sheep

Piccadilly (Pickles) is the most recent addition to our farm. She is an Icelandic sheep, like Stinka our other sheep. Icelandic sheep are hardy, can be used for fiber, wool or milk, and can thrive on a diet of just grass, although ours are fed a diet of hay with a little grain.

Bev has dreams of hooking a rug one day from pickles and Stinka :-)