Autumn in Three Lakes

The air is crisp, the trees are glowing and the apples are ripe. There are cranberry fests and pumpkin fests. The birds are flocking in preparation to fly south and V-shapes of geese are already on their way. The deer are coming back to the field and checking out the new apple crop. It's autumn in Three Lakes in all it's splendor.





Sarah's first attempt at a garden had it's successes and it's failures. The tomatoes didn't ripen; whether that is from lack of growing time or lack of attention is anyone's guess. None of us really had a lot of time to devote to them. The blossoms should have been picked off so more growth nutrients could have gone to fewer tomatoes. By the end of the growing season, there was a lot of little green tomatoes. Some of them were grape tomatoes, but not all of them. We did pick the green ones and they are laid out in the house in hopes that they will ripen.







The garden did produce kohlrabi, purple cabbage, carrots, broccoli, pumpkin. Sarah didn't get a chance to share in too much of the harvest. She was busy collecting ticks...I mean white spruce samples. Other fruits of the land are ripening and ready for harvesting as well. The apples are ready, too, for us and the deer. And the watermelon has turned into a beautiful orange pumpkin!









The animals are storing food and fattening themselves up to prepare for the winter ahead. Bumble bees are feasting on the thistles, another plentiful crop in the garden along with burdock.
Deer are eating whatever they can find and the chipmunks are filling their cheeks with as much sunflower seeds as they can hold. Woodpeckers and nuthatches are coming back to the suet to claim their territory.









These are just a few of the things that is shaping autumn in the Three Lakes.