Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Solstice Moon<\/p>\n
Bagging apples again this morning. \u00a0Another hundred done, a hundred yesterday, at least that many, maybe more to go. \u00a0I don’t know how practical this would be for a commercial operation but for our purposes, it’s time well spent. \u00a0I have noticed that there are leaf rollers on many leaves and some of the baby apples have already been eaten into by either an insect or something else, but for the most part the trees are healthy and the baby apples are, too. \u00a0I also noticed that apple production seems heaviest on branches off branches that attach to the trunk. \u00a0Not sure what that means.<\/p>\n
Outside and inside. \u00a0So this was outside, working with the apple trees, individual apples, leaves, watching as the sky grew cloudy and dark, feeling the heat begin to build. \u00a0Using my hands, opening the ziploc bag, placing it around the apple, sealing it with two fingers, checking the seal, moving on to the next apple, checking for fruit I missed.<\/p>\n
All the time, too, I thought about how to create a ground cover that would keep the orchard neat, beautiful. \u00a0We had clover, but it didn’t fight off the grass and the grass keeps coming. Kate fights it, but the battle is a losing one. \u00a0We need a different solution. \u00a0I’m thinking suppression with high quality landscape cloth and thick mulch. \u00a0Javier, maybe.<\/p>\n
Inside. \u00a0I’m writing this, reflecting on the time outside. \u00a0Trying to fit together a foreground\/background idea that has popped up over the last day. \u00a0That is, when outside, my thoughts often turn inside, I become meditative, while inside, I often stay on task, up at the conscious level and it takes an effort to get inside. \u00a0So, in a sense, when I’m outside I’m inside and when I’m inside I’m outside. \u00a0Just a curious bit right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Solstice Moon Bagging apples again this morning. \u00a0Another hundred done, a hundred yesterday, at least that many, maybe … Continue reading Outside Inside<\/span>