There's a lot to do to put a homestead ready for winter. Trillium has lots of fruit trees that were planted years ago so they are mostly heirloom varieties. Here we are picking apples. We've been enjoying applesauce and apple pies, yummy!Trillium Farm is located in a valley and unlike most valleys with steep walls and a mischevious river at the bottom, Trillium valley has broad, open meadows. This makes it an attractive site for outdoor get-togethers. Every summer groups rent the place to hold conferences.
But in the autumn the leaves take over and they must be raked up for compost. See that little speck of color to the right? That's Janet raking away. Go Janet! When we're finished I'll post a picture of the huge pile we are creating.We have done a little hiking here. It's not uncommon to see huge bear poops on the trails which tends to knock oneself out of one's reverie and become very present in the here and now! (But I'll spare you the picture.)
This was a scene Connor captured at the top of a "knob" above us, looking down the Little Applegate Valley. I asked my friend Chant to explain the word, "knob", which is an intermediate high spot on a ridge on the way to a still higher one. Chant is fascinating to listen to because he has such a vast and precise vocabulary. He says things like "knob", and "draw", and "fine-fuel", and "underburn" and I'm always slowing him down to explain them to me.I'll leave you with a picture of the sunset that Alexis insisted I take. I told her it probably wouldn't come out well but took it anyway. Having children that are smarter than you can be humbling. Oh, and you should see the stars at night!
