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hopefully soon I will go again to pick up those delicious berries. It is now strawberry pick-up but I might just skip it and wait for raspberries and blueberries.
j'espère retourner bientôt pour ramasser ces délicieuses baies. C'est maintenant le ramassage des fraises, mais je pense attendre les framboises et les myrtilles.
"I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers."
Vincent Van Gogh
Spruce Grouse Male (Canachites canadensis)
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From my Fall 2015 Archives:
As many of you know, I have a "thing" for grouse. I find them endlessly entertaining, particularly if they don't notice you. This fellow was after fresh leaves. I can only imagine that it tasted like dessert because Spruce Grouse eat mostly needles from spruce trees.
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We spent a lovely Saturday afternoon picking 8 pounds of plump blueberries in a wonderful U-Pick farm called Jensen Blueberries. It is all certified organic and you can bring your dog! They have a huge Bloodhound who comes to greet everybody. There are sooooo many berries ... I might have to return and get more! It is a miraculously grounding and harmonizing activity to be doing. It just makes you feel good!
I offered Blanca some berries (and the owners don't mind if you or your dog sample plenty) ... but she didn't even want to try a single one!
Beautiful tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers U-Pick Farm in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: These tulips fields in Abbotsford had to skip a year last year due to floods, but they have been fully operational again this year. My friend and I really wanted to go see some tulip fields again this year and we choose to visit the Abbotsford Tulip Festival, there is one in Chilliwack as well. We decided to go back to the one in Abbotsford operated by Lakeland Flowers which we visited a couple of years ago as well. It was their first year opening the fields to the public at that time. They have such beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties and amazing colours which is why we choose to visit this tulip festival! 🌷🌷🌷
I took this photo yesterday at these beautiful tulip fields. I must say there is something about tulip fields and mountains which you don't see in the Netherlands.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 11mm
*F-Number: F/8
*Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/
.... run by the Lewin Family of Wading River, I spent the day picking peaches, eggplants, tomatoes, and peppers. I ate roasted corn on the cob, took lots of photos, and had a wonderful day, even if I did slide into a huge mud puddle. Fortunatley, I'm the photog so this mishap was not caught on film!
The berries available at the U-Pick farms on the North Fork of Long Island were not sweet and the produce available at the farm stands I found to be a bit pricey. So, no blueberries, raspberries or cherries for dinner this evening. The watermelon from my neighborhood supermarket...... sweet, sweet, sweet!
The U-pick strawberry bus taken very early in the morning .Dew is on the windows. Starts July 1/2015.
Beautiful tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers U-Pick Farm in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: I wanted to go see some tulip fields with my friend (who has been in my pandemic bubble). At first I was thinking of going to Chilliwack as that would be the only tulip festival around in the area as the Bloom Tulip Festival in Abbotsford moved to the Okanagan. But then I came across this other place in Abbotsford that opened for the first time this year for a u-pick experience.
Since it was something new, we decided to go there, it is called Lakeland U-Pick Flower Farm and is located in Abbotsford. They have beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties! And your admission to the fields includes 5 stems of tulips that you can pick yourself before you go home!! 🌷🌷🌷
I took this photo at the beautiful tulip fields.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony ILCA-77M2
*Focal Length: 16mm
*F-Number: F/8
*Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/
"How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
Give me a break let me make my own pattern
All that it takes is some time but I'm shattered
I always turn the car around"
"OAR- Shattered Turn The Car Around"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVYPf4TbMY
Just down it the dumps and can't seem to shake it. Haven't been Flickring. But I miss my contact and I'm going to try and snap out if it. XOX,L
Early this morning mom and I headed out to Wading River to pick peaches. Our destination a peach farm that was established back around 1900. According to the farms website, "in 1992, **** began a practice he swore he'd never do - "Pick Your Own Peaches" was now underway at the **** Peach Farm." He should never have done it!
Yellow boundary tape, surveillance cameras, "No, No, No" signs posted all over the place, fruit rotting on the ground in the orchards, baskets filled with bruised fruit, and a very nasty "the peach orchards are closed for a few days" in response to my request to U-Pick.
The bad vibes created by the owners, wokrers, signs, etc., made this a very unhappy place to be. Yet people were buying. I just got back in the car and drove mom over to Lewin Farms where we had a spectacular fun day picking out pumpkins and gourds and corn and eggplant and cabbage and ........
Bird in the tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers U-Pick Farm in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: I hope you don't mind, but I will be sharing some photos from my tulip field trip the other day.
These tulips fields in Abbotsford had to skip a year last year due to floods, but they have been fully operational again this year. My friend and I really wanted to go see some tulip fields again this year and we choose to visit the Abbotsford Tulip Festival, there is one in Chilliwack as well. We decided to go back to the one in Abbotsford operated by Lakeland Flowers which we visited a couple of years ago as well. It was their first year opening the fields to the public at that time. They have such beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties and amazing colours which is why we choose to visit this tulip festival! 🌷🌷🌷
While wandering through the tulip fields I noticed this little birdie sitting on a tulip. It stayed there long enough for me to zoom in and take a photo!
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 203mm
*F-Number: F/8
*Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/
Polaroid SLR 680
Polaroid 600 Film
I found a upick garden on Facebook and decided to visit while the kids were gone over the summer. Just something to do for a day by myself. Lily’s Garden in Newbern, TN is a beautiful place and I can’t wait to go back! I enjoyed wandering amongst the flowers and snapping photos.