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RED PLUMS AND SUNSETS

21 Wednesday Jul 2010

Posted by backyardnotes in Canning & Preserving, Jellies & Preserves, Roses, Sunset

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DESPITE THE MORNING MARINE LAYER that has greeted us the last four or five days, the afternoons turned sunny and last night’s sunset was quite lovely. I especially love the way the blooms of Altissimo were lit up when viewed from behind. I could not resist trying to capture the glow.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON I went to my friend Don’s and took him up on his offer of red plums. In exchange, he’ll receive some plum preserves. Don has a very efficient method of harvest: shake the branches and the ripe ones fall to the ground. No ladder climbing. I brought home eleven pounds!

Yesterday I made preserves and jelly. Half of the plums went to juice for jelly and the others became plum preserves. From eleven pounds of plums I put up ten half-pints of jelly, eight half-pints of preserves and three half-pints of syrup from the leftover juice.

In 2005 we went to Chicago and then onto Milan, Illinois to visit Tom’s cousin and her husband. We went with them to visit the John Deere Museum in the Quad Cities and in the gift shop I found a great book about putting up jams and jellies. Even though the author weirdly refers to herself in the third person, The Jamlady Cookbook is well researched and written and has a great variety of recipes for just about every fruit and fruit combination you never considered. The book is full of the technical information that makes canning possible and I highly recommend this book if you have a serious interest in jams, jellies and preserves. The other go-to book is the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. I finally replaced my thirty-five year old copy with a new and updated edition last summer. It is greatly expanded with a contemporary take on preserving and canning recipes.  Another must-have book.

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SWEET SMELL OF JUNE—JOY ON DAY THREE OF SUMMER

23 Wednesday Jun 2010

Posted by backyardnotes in June flowers, Roses, Summer!

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OUR THIRD DAY OF SUMMER HAD A PROMISING START with the temperature at 58° at 6:00 a.m., high clouds and some blue sky.

I was checking on the transplants and heard a lot of honeybee activity in the poppies, so I grabbed the camera and started shooting. I think I got some pretty good shots as the bees were quite occupied by the pollen and not distracted by me. Honeybees seem more plentiful this year than the last few and that’s good for everyone.

Little to no breeze this morning, so it was a chance to take a few snaps of some of the roses. Tom is the rose keeper here; I just enjoy them and take pictures.

This is ‘Bill Warriner’  first introduced in 1997 and named for its hybridizer. We purchase it from Jackson & Perkins catalog in 1998. It is a floribunda type and very prolific in flower production and a beautiful pink with nice fragrance..

This rose is ‘Golden Wings’. A simple petal arrangement when open with lovely, long stamens. It is very disease resistant and blooms repeatedly throughout the summer and well into fall with regular deadheading. Below is the same rose full bloomed. The color is kind of pearly with a glowing yellow center and very photogenic. It gives me a feeling of tranquility.

My son-in-law came this morning and we transplanted seedlings of broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprout into larger pots and then will set out in our vegetable gardens in a couple of weeks. Plenty of plants for his family, my other daughter and my vegetable garden too. Today’s temperature topped out around 76°—woo-hoo!

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