With cooler weather and rain expected every day for the coming week, berry season is quickly coming to an end in southeast Michigan.
Which meant if I wanted to have more Michigan-grown berries to eat fresh, makes jams, or freeze, I needed to go out this weekend to do some picking.
I found a new local u-pick farm that not only had fall red raspberries, but also yellow raspberries as well as fall bearing blackberries. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Enjoying Michigan’s Fall Berries
Imagine a mound of violet-blue flowers with orange-yellow centers that blooms continuously from early September through November, often retaining their blooms after the first light snow. That’s why I enjoy the purple Dragon Hybrid Aster. The low-mounding perennial, less than two feet tall, provides stunning intense color in the fall that contrasts with the Kelvin… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Purple Dragon Hybrid Aster
“Wait a minute,” I said to my husband as I peered at the feeder in our side yard this weekend.
“That bird doesn’t look like the brown-colored House Finches.
It looks like it has a raspberry wash over it.”
And the other House Finches on the feeder didn’t seem very happy with it.
The raspberry-colored bird kept chasing the other birds away from the feeder. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Purple Finch at Our Feeder