May 2003
I bought this place in March 2002 and moved here a year later, when I retired from 20+ years of data processing in the corporate world.
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Where I live....
May 2003
I bought this place in March 2002 and moved here a year later, when I retired from 20+ years of data processing in the corporate world. |
| View from the house, to the west.... |
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It only snowed once last winter
The elevation is 1500 feet |
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This part of California is a grower's dream
Cold enough to grow cherries and blueberries Hot enough to grow citrus Soon after I harvest the pears and quince, the oranges are ripening. The leaves on the peach tree on the right are turning yellow and gold. |
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The previous owner kept horses and exercised them in a circle
Now the lupines take the field in the spring |
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I dug up some old grapevines which had been neglected for years,
pruned and staked them last spring. Turned out to be sweet table grapes similar to Concord but smaller. Possibly a California native grape. |
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I harvested buckets of grapes in September
Some we ate, some we juiced, some a friend made into wine... |
| Hail on the pond, in May |
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Ten heirloom apple trees... Ashmead's Kernel, Calville Blanc, Cox's Orange Pippin, Gravenstein, Spitzenburg, Pink Pearl, Granny Smith, Empire, Pink Lady, Tremblett's Bitter |