Red Falls Near and Far

I’m still picking raspberries! Maybe not quite a bowl full, but they’re bearing quite a respectable collection every couple days.

Fall colors

Here’s some random colors from pink to red. Most are the usual suspects for autumn, from pink snapdragons to orange euonymous fruits to red Alpine strawberries back after the heat for an encore. And every year my warm spot for tomatoes shelters them way longer than you might expect. Yes, we have tomatoes!

It’s getting euonymous up there

The Amateur Naturalist was tramping on a hill, On a sunny fall day when the bees are buzzing still. Such a bright red bush has escaped from the weeds, And familiar looking fruits reveal its identity.

Trick or treats for the birds

Right on time for Halloween, there’s lots of euonymous fruits hanging on the shrub like fat little pumpkins. If the birds enjoy them, the cat has promised not to pull any tricks. Like the birds should believe a cat. Is that why they’re going uneaten?

An odd little fruit

Hidden away among the branches of the wintercreeper euonymous that the tomato likes to lean on are more tiny fruits. Little orange fruits clasped in a white. When they first appear lots of orange specs dot the variegated leaves. Then they disappear. There must be birds eating them, though I’ve never seen them. This one […]