Rounding up the 2012 Season...

 

 

 A COUNTRY VENUE CREATED FOR YOU 

wheelchair accessible

 

 

Open May 15  2013   to  October  15   2013

'Weather permitting'

 

                                                       'A Place Where Life Is Good'


Lloydminster, Alberta/across the street from 'Saskatchewan'  off hwy 17 N.

thoughts: .......are?

 

•Aspire to inspire before you expire. Author unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

No...No...Snow !

........Still so much to do before the gate closes for the season!
We have already had two snow skiff's.  That really lets us know what is coming!  Managed to get alot cleaned up and by the 'weather-lady' we will have a couple more days that will give me a chance to attend to the equipment and tend to a final clean up!

My grape crop was very skinny this year..because of the very warm winter we had in 2011.  My bushes froze off and have had to start from the bottom again....that's OK by me...I need to clean up all the berries in the freezer this year into jelly and tasty treats!

ENDING BLOOMS: 

Dark Clouds in the Sky
Cooling Winds whipping by
Forcing my gardens beauty to
       bend and cry
Leaves swirling, branches bareing their
        souls
Moaning sounds of summer's end
the dawning of fall's entrance to
        behold

My spirit crys out No, No....
      I haven't finished
time, I need time, to build
Create, savor the joys of blooms.
Stems, brilliant colors that I, with
tenderness, my garden radiates

No matter how I brace
Against the season's end
Signs of closing nature al'round
          time, it is time
For rest, inside my gardens gate.

                               The last rose of 2012 summer.....

Thank You But Again....

Cold grey skies, a damp mist in the air
A slight shiver across my back as I stare
Across the tops of the shrubs and gaze at the ridge
        to the level above
remembering the blaze of bright colors and green.

The yellows, pinks and blues of purple sheen
The season once again has ended.
My blessings of good times, of proud moments
crowding the corners of my minds memories
As I close the gate on another year.

Roll up the hose's, hang up the shovels, rakes and trowels.
Above the geese noislily fly south, squawking loudly in their flight.

The season's snow chill is in the air.  It's time to say....
So long 2012, I'll be back once again....
Come the new dawn of spring time, ye adding but one.

....we're fallin....

I can't decide whether or not this is a season I enjoy or simply don't like and work through.  I for sure love the colours and that is probably the reason 'mother nature' gives us the final show!  Yep, she has it all figured out.  We are headed into the cold white season. Winter. Freezing temps. Gray dismal days peppered with (some) dazzling bright sunshine days. Well, guess I can relent and say it is time to rest.  Rest for me.  Rest for my garden.  Rest for the soils.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

We have our memories our photo's and our 'next year plans'

A final celebration of 'falling'  Fall time,  Harvest time..........

Memories!  as we move into the 'frosty season'