Winter's Feed

I'm sure yesterday's cows would be quite happy with some of this hay this winter.

Bumper Crop

These berries don't end where it appears. The rows kept going down over the hill and seemed to go on forever. They look like marion berries.

Corn Field- Not ready yet

I'll be happy when we have local corn ready to eat.

Filberts

Another nut crop we grow locally is filberts. From the trees I've seen these are much smaller than the walnut trees.

English Walnuts

OK back to local crops. English walnuts are another crop we have locally. Some of the orchards are very old and the tree are huge and gorgeous. In my younger years I used to do the u-picks for the walnuts. Messy! The green hulls turn black before they release the nuts and the black comes off on everything.

A few years ago one of the growers cut an old orchard because he said the wood was worth more than the crops.

Blueberries

I posted about the crops around Silverton awhile back, but have never showed you our local crops. One of my favorites are the local blueberries. I wish I had these in my back yard. Yum...

Hey, It's Hay!

The haying is done in the Umpqua Valley. The hay from this field has been hauled off to the barn



Round hay bales still dot some fields



And some bales are protected from the rain in neatly sealed plastic cases.

Raspberries

These berry rows seemed to go on forever. My guess is that these are raspberries. I stopped at a roadside fruit stand and raspberries and strawberries were both available.

OK We're back in the Silverton area. There are 3 fields of flowers in this shot. I believe the flowers in the front field are snapdragons? I love the varied color.

I don't know what the white with the tire tracks in the far field is.

...as we walk in fields of gold...

They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them. There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy's eyes.

"Aren't they beautiful?" the girl asked, as she breathed in the spicy scent of the bright flowers.

"I suppose so," answered the Scarecrow. "When I have brains, I shall probably like them better."

"If I only had a heart, I should love them," added the Tin Woodman.

"I always did like flowers," said the Lion. "They seem so helpless and frail. But there are none in the forest so bright as these."

~The Wizard of Oz~

I'm Dreaming of a White......

...field of flowers...

It almost looks like a Christmas scene :) Beautiful white flowers with a few gold ones scattered around the field.

The Color Purple

Can you just imagine sitting in your backyard with your morning coffee looking out over this gorgeous field?

I don't know what kind of flowers these are and I wonder how they are a money crop.. I just know they are breathtaking and my heart almost stopped when I first came across these fields of flowers.

Floral Crops

Yep, the farm area around Silverton is certainly God's country. I was amazed at the different types of crops grown in this area. And I was absolutely delighted to find that many of the crops were flowers.. in some places huge brillient fields of flowers. But I'm saving those for my Silverton finale. :)

There are 4 different crops in this one photo.