Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Promises ...

6 Comments:

Blogger Brenda Clews said...

Yum...

02 August, 2006 15:38  
Blogger Stray said...

:)

03 August, 2006 09:19  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pretty dam cool pics :)

03 August, 2006 22:35  
Blogger MB said...

These are beautiful, Stray. Really. I love the sense of depth you got with the light and focus. Makes me feel as if I were a bee, on my way through the leaves to these scented sweets!

04 August, 2006 17:05  
Blogger Stray said...

oops ... that'll teach me to check my login :)

shared computers eh :) don't ask ... it's a long story.

04 August, 2006 17:12  
Blogger Stray said...

g, that's an interesting question. The truth is that they are sharing my outdoor living space, and I expect that I will pick them, but I feel that our relationship hasn't been any more involved than that. The people who's family home this was from the day they built it until just a couple of months ago did the planting and tending in the vulnerable years.

Grapes in this climate ... ambitious, but our record July has set them up nicely.

In some ways it is a fitting thing ... my mother's family have a fruit farm, which her brother inherited. I spent many summers picking redcurrants and gooseberries ... greengages, plums, raspberries and strawberries ... though even a south facing slope in Scotland could surely never ripen grapes?

Some of the fruit is a little too reachable - I caught the dog stealing half-ripened grapes yesterday!

05 August, 2006 15:06  

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