Saturday, May 2, 2009

Time on the farm goes quickly.  Our first month is over and the world here is beginning to awaken to spring.  Today I pruned my last tree.  A bit late for such things, but we shall see what happens.  Besides there is nothing more lovely then being up in an apple tree with buds about to burst forth.  These are a few images from the past month.  Life is going well.  and though I find I love farming more this year than last year, I also find I am missing all of you wonderful people more too.  Life is full of extremes.  Know you are all loved.

removing dead trees from the orchard


my attempts at grafting...this is a cleft graft.


Signs of spring.  The apple blossoms.

Pruning my last tree.

The beginning of the Children's Garden I am establishing.

4 comments:

Hannah said...

A children's garden! Sounds great. Would love to hear about the plans for that. Blessings on your work.

Mustard said...

thanks for the update, farm girl. the apple blossoms are beautiful! know you are missed!

Emily said...

Nice to see some new pictures. You are missed too!

Malgados 5 said...

Hi Katie,

We also pruen the cehrry tree in fron of our house ...all the way to the roots becasue it was dead.

Looks like you are in your element!