#trees changing

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Goodnight. 🥰😋😴😴

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“Autumn vibes”

Photo by Jonah Pettrich on Unsplash

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fall is so beautiful ✨✨✨

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Changing Seasons

As the garden season winds down, each garden bed gets a blanket of straw to protect it from the snowy weather to come. This also helps keep the weeds from getting too far ahead of me in the spring. (Note the “too far” part of that statement. The weeds are usually ahead of me regardless of mulch and how much time I spend weeding.)

Dressing my lovely garden assistant in her winter gear is fun. She is one of many strategies we use to keep wildlife (birds, deer, and adorable yet troublesome bunny rabbits) out of the gardens. She doesn’t actually help much, but she makes me smile regularly. She will stand guard for the winter and get spiffed up once spring arrives.

I still milk the goats, gather the yummy chicken eggs, and get the last bits of our bounty harvested. The elderberries are ready to be picked and begin their journey to becoming elderberry tincture for immune support and maybe some syrup. I just harvested the pears, and this year it was exciting, because we had so many that I needed a basket to carry them into the house. For anyone who has never planted fruit trees before, they are a long term investment, but well worth the wait. Apples, which we get in abundance, are waiting patiently to become applesauce now that there is a bit more time to play with them and see what new things I can make this year.

I just love the seasonal changes we enjoy here in Wallowa County: the beautiful colors as the trees change, the snow appearing on the mountain tops, and the cold mountain air. The different seasons give a beautiful rhythm to our lives here in Joseph, where life moves at a different pace, and we can take the time to enjoy all the little things.