The Chokecherries along the driveway are ready to be picked...or left for the birds. The foliage of the Chokecherry bushes looks all beat u...

 I ran over to let Baxter and Smudge out...their masters were stuck in town longer than they thought. It was a windy cool day... "Treat...

 Monday was a catch all day for me. Laundry and putting away "stuff."  Far Guy has slept very little in the last 48 hours.  It mus...

 It was very smoky on Sunday.  I took a few photos on our way to have late lunch/early supper with my brothers and their wives on Mother...

 It was time to finish up those open shelves in the kitchen.  They get dusty.  They are clean now!  The ruffly blue vase on the top shelf is...

 This week I happened along a web site that makes me smile.  It is   Secret Santa  Stories. If you need a smile check it out.   That Secret ...

 We were invited out for supper.   I wanted to take a Christmas gift of Chokecherry Jelly.  Imagine my surprise that all the jars in the pan...

 Fall is coming on strong.  The night time temperatures are in the 50's F  and leaves and acorns are falling out of the trees.    The Ch...

 Lazy day but we managed to make a trip to recycle.  Baxter came to visit because his people were having a gathering for my baby brothers 50...

 I steamed the chokecherries...it makes the whole house smell wonderful !  I got 14 cups of juice from 2 1/2 ice cream pails of fruit.  That...

There is a bumper crop of Chokecherries this year.  These hang right in the driveway and I go around them every time I go in or out.  I pick...

 The Hawthorns are blooming.  We have always called them Thornapples...the wood is good for flower stems if you are a woodcarver.  Can you s...

 We have some new blooms.   Sure hope it doesn't freeze.    That is a real possibility later this week...be wary of the super flower blo...

 We have some chokecherries coming up where they should not be.  My other baby brother may get them and transplant them to a better spot.  T...

 I completed picking Chokecherries on Friday morning.   It was a great ten days of picking. We started picking July 29 and picked off and on...

The last batch of Chokecherries yielded 12 jars of jelly...one did not seal...not sure why.  It is in the fridge for now.  I am done until w...

I have watercolor pencils and pens and a set of shimmery water colors but not a real set of various colors. As long as you are ordering you ...

Far Guy and I picked about two ice cream pails of chokecherries yesterday.  There will be one more picking later this week...some of the tre...

The Chokecherrys that we picked a few days ago are now jelly.  It was a cooler Saturday morning project.  I made three batches and it yielde...

A few of the Chokecherries are ripe.  These are ready, they are dark and plump and easily strip off the stalk. These are not ready...they ne...