Common Ground Country Fair, Maine

A wonderful way to celebrate the fall is with a trip to the Common Ground Fair

You can buy all kinds of good food.

Lots of people wear Sweet Annie Crowns.

They wear all kinds of fun things.

We took a wagon ride.

More funny hats.

The kids always have a good time.

My favorite - the llamas!

Katie & Raf enjoy the strawberry cream puffs.

I always try some of the lamb.

Judy likes to check out the wool.

And the yarn too.

Judy and I sampled the Apple Pie Cones.  Delicious!

Waterville Maine Community Garden Club Beautifies Oakland



We took on a new project this fall - The planters in Oakland, Maine.  We decorated them with mums, ornamental grasses, and kale for the fall season



Jackie wheels the mulch donated by Blake's Hardware down Main Street


 





Here comes Shirley with a barrel full of mulch




What is Shirley doing in that barrel?



Nothing like some mums to brighten up the town





The original horse trough from 1900

Laura Pierce, owner of Pierce's Nursery in Oakland, Maine donated all the flowers





Pierce's Nursery in Oakland - what a great place to shop!



The New Katie Cruz

Congratulations Katie and Raf - Just Married September 5, 2010

The Happy Couple.

Before the wedding

Max saves the bench in beautiful Prescott Park.

Mom and Shelley waiting for everyone to arrive.  Where is Raf's family?

Judy and Katie drop off the balloons at The Wellington Room for the reception

We're so glad Mom and Dad could come.

Dad and Katie enjoy dinner at Blue Latitudes in Dover - our favorite place for before-wedding dining.

Here comes the bride accompanied by Sarah.  My beautiful nieces.

Raf's official welcome to our family.

The happy couple enter the reception as the crowd throws confetti and rose petals.

Cutting the cake.

September Flowers

May you live happily ever after.

Emily's Summer Vacation

Emily had so much fun this summer.  Here she is at one of her favorite activities.

My Late August Maine Garden

Balancing Owls in front of phlox, coneflowers, and bee balm. 

I was so excited to pick my first pumpkins. 

I like to grow sugar pumpkins because they are also good to cook with.

Morning Glories climb the trellis entering the vegetable garden.

I planted them once and they self-seed, coming back each year.

I love the sound of the bamboo wind chimes.

Late summer border of pink and white coneflowers, purple lobelia, and phlox in bloom.

 
Everything looks good in front of the grey boulders.
 

 
This petunia is the centerpiece of the garden.  It is surrounded by silver artemesia and phlox.

Container with lime green licorice (helichrysum), matches the green on the edges of the leaves of the coleus.
In the center is purple fountain grass.

Lots of butterflies flutter through the garden. 

My Maine Vegetable Garden Early August

It has been a great growing season - lots of sunshine and hot weather.

Edible Nasturiums planted from seed saved from last year surround the garden

Oregano Blooming - a perennial that comes back every year with Ribbon Grass

Dill 'Bouquet' - Judy's  'must' in potato salad

'Big Bertha' Pepper

Waltham Butternut Squash

This is the first year I've grown 'Bonbon' Buttercup Squash.

'Baby Bear' Pie Pumpkin is Starting to Turn Orange

Lots of bees to pollinate.

I've been eating Swiss Chard 'Bright Lights' all season. 

Marigolds planted from seed saved from last year are pretty and are supposed to 'ward off pests'.

Mmmm... I'm hungry ... time for dinner.

All varieties are from Johnny's Selected Seeds except for 'Big Bertha' which comes from Burpee.