Rosa Rugosa

Aren't these rose hips beautiful.
This is a Rosa Rugosa. I took these pics at Squalicum Harbor in Bellington.
Rose hips are crammed with vitamin C and are good for you. You can make tea and jam with them.





Rose Hip Tea
This is a very basic recipe.
Pour 1 cup of boiling water over 2 heaping teaspoons of chopped rose hips. You can use rose hips with or without their seeds. Steep the herbal tea, covered, for 15 minutes and strain. Sweeten the refreshing, slightly sour tea with honey, if desired. Drink hot or chilled.

Follow up on Sign

I don't see any vehicles parked here. But I do see flatbeds filled with nets and at the back is a skiff---I'm tellin', I just am.
She said, stamping her feet!!!


And no rock and roll band--although I did see an old man playing a kazoo.

Sign #9

Mr. Bo-jangles...

He is the MR. at the Utopia Alpaca Farm on Camano Island.
Isn't he cute.
I think he looks like a dancer with his leg warmers on so I call him Mr. Bojangles.
His real name is Oreo or something like that. MB

What big feet you have.......

.........and gnarley toes and green skin.
Friday Creek Sept 24th

Sentinel

Taken from the Loop Trail in Washington Park in Anacortes. 7:09PM

What am I?

I found this building in Oak Harbor, Wa. With this sign attached. Cute!!

Safe harbor

Bowman Beach

Bingo

Bingo doesn't know he is such a big dog.

Goaties say hello

Stanley and Snowflake say hello
They usually are playing on the rock pile.

Fall Crocus

Meadow saffron (Colchicum)

The men of the house

Grandma's big helpers

YES!!!

That old sun is going to shine again today. See it peeking around the corner of the house. Yippee.

Is that a .........

.......Yellow-faced Bumble Bee?

Hardy Cyclamens

Hardy Cyclamens grow outside---these are different than the larger one that one has as a house plant. These guys come up every fall without there leaves. The leaves show up in the Spring and Summer. They like to grown under pine trees or that type of soil. They naturalize easily. Very neat. MB

A sign of the times

Raking is next.

Another night of the moon before the rains

A pleasant evening. I took these pics from the deck about 7:30PM.





Taken at 9:30PM through a tree with clouds moving in.

Monday Night Moon

Not much going on out here but the moon was amazing tonight. Hanging in the Western sky already.
1st pic taken at 7:00PM
2nd picture taken at 9:30PM

Look who's been hiding out

It has been raining and nasty for the past two days and then tonight about 7:30 the sky parted a bit and that ol' Mt. Rainier showed herself. Pretty inspiring. MB

Tribute to CCC workers

I took this picture at Bowman Beach at Deception Pass State Park.

The building is one of several made by CCC workers and still in use.


The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18-24, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States from 1933 to 1942. As part of the New Deal legislation proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), the CCC was designed to provide relief for unemployed youth who had a very hard time finding jobs during the Great Depression while implementing a general natural resource conservation program on public lands in every U.S. state, including the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The CCC became the most popular New Deal program among the general public, providing jobs for a total of 3 million young men from families on relief. Implicitly the CCC also led to awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's natural resources, especially for city youth. The CCC was never considered a permanent program and depended on emergency and temporary legislation for its existence. On June 30, 1942 Congress voted to eliminate funding for the CCC, formally ceasing active operation of the program.

During the time of the CCC, volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed more than 800 parks nationwide that would become the start of most state parks, developed forest fire fighting methods, a network of thousands of miles of public roadways, and constructed buildings connecting the nation's public lands.