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| Excited to be in the greenhouse and helping her mom pick basil. :) One of my great-nieces. |
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| Something likes walking on sorrel. What big eyes you have my dear! |
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| Lisa picked a wagon full of roses off of one of Mom's old rose bushes. So pretty. |
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| "Look Mom, I can put the bags of basil in the boxes." ("And be proud of myself, too.") |
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| First new onions of the year. |
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| So healthy, a basket full of Kale. |
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| All the fun tuckered her out. Lunch and a nap, sounds really good! |
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| Purple cabbage. I love all the colors and veins. |
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| My little helper loved pointing out the raindrops on the cabbage leaves. "Aunt Lorrie, take a picture!" |
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| My little helper hiding to the right in the leaves of the artichokes. Good times. |
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| Raspberries are almost ready to pick. So hard to wait until they get ripe. |
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| Dad's favorite little "wild" blackberries are loaded. A few warm days and they will be ready to pick, too. |
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| Week 4 bouquets ready to be taken home. |
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| The white lily popped up unexpectedly in the flower beds. What else will we discover? |
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| Beautiful radishes. |
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| One of our favorite roses. |
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| Another of our favorite roses. (Aren't they all?) |
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| Delphinium up close. |
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| Statuesque delphinium from afar. |
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| Beth and I went on a "walk about" week 4. She touched this little plum and it fell into her hand. Natural thinning. No worries. |
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| Looks like there will be lots of plums! |
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| Asian pears, too. Thanks Beth for being my "Vanna" hand model. |
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| And apples. A total of 98 trees, if we counted correctly. |
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| More pears. |
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| The last box at about 6:00. It will travel to south Salem with me. It is time for the raspberry Italian sodas Lisa brought as a surprise today. Thanks Lisa. Oh, and thanks Anna for the pasta lunch today delivered to the potting shed. Yumminess all over the place. |
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| If you have heard the rooster when picking up your box, here he is last summer on the post outside the potting shed. He is majestic. |
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| The week before the first boxes. Bryan Hatzenbihler "Hatz", Jamie Ellis "Jame claim to Fame Ellis", and my niece Amber helped finish tearing down a small barn. LOTS OF MUSCLE POWER was used that day. Thanks you guys, so much. |
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| Same day, nephew-in-law Scott was plowing and my daughter Alex, was moving a compost pile. This is a family affair. Wayyyy in the background, Andrew and Likzy are pulling weeds in the asparagus.Week 4, those two are in Africa on a mission trip. What a family. :) |
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| "Harvest boxer" Melissa took this picture of Week 3 flowers and her husband, Edward's quiche creation using veggies from their weekly box. Thanks for sharing, wish I had "taste-o-vision" right now. |
