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posted: August 9th, 2022 |
This month's photos are just a mish-mash of various things we did and saw during the month of July and the first couple days of August. You'll see birds, squirrels, rounds of wood, flowers, confectionery items, berries, Gettinger's Field, our woodshed, and a single photo which shows me, Daniel. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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The first shot in this row shows an adult and a young Hairy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) at one of our suet feeders and the second shot shows the suet feeder being "attacked" by a little red squirrel while a young Hairy Woodpecker curses at it. The woodpecker ended up going to the other suet feeder.
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The first photo here shows some large Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) rounds in the wheelbarrow and ready to be split. The largest of them were 16 inches in diameter. The second image shows an eight flower collage. The top and bottom rows show Anemone blossoms that Kazuya is harvesting from our garden. We purchased a bag of Anemone corms from Costco and planted them outside when the weather warmed up this spring. They are blooming prolifically and beautifully - a good investment.
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The first shot in this row shows me standing in our canopy at our local Tanana Valley Farmer's Market. We sell Kazuya's Baked Delights there about every second Saturday. The second shot shows Kazuya's Nerikiri. This is not even a baked confection, it is created from bean paste and a few other ingredients. The "flowers" represented here are Chrysanthemums in the front and Sakura (Cherry blossoms) in the back.
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On July 24th we took a drive up the Elliott Highway to see what we could find in the mountains. The first shot shows Nagoon Berries (Rubus arcticus), a delicious berry, but a real hassle to harvest and clean. The second and third shots show Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium aka Chamerion angustifolium), which was growing prolifically in this area right beside the highway.
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Here are two more shots of Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium aka Chamerion angustifolium) in the same area right along the highway.
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Here are two final shots of Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium aka Chamerion angustifolium) in this area, be forewarned though, these are not the final fireweed shots.
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Here is a photo of me standing beside one of the Delphinium plants we have. Note that the blue flowers tower a couple of feet over my head.
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On July 25th Kazuya and I took a walk up the road to Gettinger's Field. Here are two 2-Shot panoramic images which show how green the grass is and also show the amazing colors that can be found in the fireweed. These images have been adjusted to bring out the amazingly vibrant colors.
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Here is one more 2-Shot panorama of Gettinger's Field. The second shot is a single shot of the field. It too has been adjusted to bring out the colors better.
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This shot was taken the same evening as the previous four shots. This shot shows some of the clouds on this amazingly windy day. We had such strong winds that the power was out for around one-half of the area. Our place was fortunate and we only lacked electricity for about 6 or 8 hours. Some areas were without power for more than 3 days.
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The first photo in this row shows a portion of the pile of 14 trees that we had felled on our property on June 17. The second photo shows the final portion of those 14 trees in a pile after I used our Wood Splitter on July 28th, when it was piled it ended up being a bit more than 1.5 cords.
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The first two photos in this row show the four ricks of firewood we got from the 14 trees we had felled. Each rick is very close to 1.1 cords (128 cu. ft. = 1 cord), so we got about 4.4 cords from the 14 trees. The final shot here shows our entire woodshed - the 2.9 ricks on the right hand side are more than enough for the 2022-23 firewood year (August 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023). The new wood, on the left, will not be used until the following years. Right now there is enough wood here for 3+ firewood years.
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These two shots show more of Kazuya's beautiful and delicious "Nerikiri". The "flowers" on the left are Peony flowers and those on the right are Chrysanthemums.
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Here is a shot of Daniel with some of Kazuya's garden flowers. The only flower here which did not come from our own garden is the single peony flower, and that came about through a trade of a Peony Nerikiri for a real Peony Flower from a fellow vendor at Farmer's Market.
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