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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (799)	9/22/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

There was supposed to be frost in our region last night too. I didn't bother covering plants as things are already ended here... the severe heat and dry weather basically fried up the garden by late August. We've had frosts this early before. I usually reckon the first one as being around the date of the Richmond Fair which was last weekend, so we're actually running late. The forests around here are barely turning colour yet, although we were up hiking in the mountains north of here last weekend and a few trees are starting to turn. We'll be up there again this weekend, and I'm sure we'll see a lot more oranges and reds. Really a lot of monarch butterflies passing over on the way south this year. A lot of my friends noticed it too and it's been commented on in the local papers. I can't say I've ever seen that many passing by ever before. Anywhere where there were thistle flowers or certain other plants, the monarchs would be resting in the dozens or perhaps hundreds during cool parts of the day. During the heat of the day, there would always be a few soaring over the yard on a meandering, but determined path to the south. It was fantastic... Just doing a lot of hiking here this year. Over on the canoeing thread, I posted a report on my latest hike up in the Gatineau Hills. I've mentioned the "beech leaves" as being slippery to walk on, but they are also really springy. I happened to look up beech trees in my favourite tree book and it mentions how they were a very preferred material for stuffing mattresses back in the pioneer days in Upper Canada. Apparently they were much springier than straw and made a light mattress which didn't crunch and rustle too much. The leaves certainly are beautiful... slightly waxy and very dry and clean... a nice soft amber colour... but VERY slippery to step on when you're scrambling down a steeply declining trail...(-: