Fall Colors in the Mountains

lovely view GT, you can almost feel the winter coming cant you

Thanks San. You most certainly can feel winter around the corner. It comes so quickly. This is about 1000ft elevated above Fairbanks so it comes quicker. Just five days before I took my green lake shots on the other side of this mountain. Now there is a snow cap working down on the peak.

really i bet thats a site to see, but it doesnt seem to long since we saw the snow melting in your pics GT,

I know. I think it was 107 days ago. :-) We really had a wonderful summer, warm and sunny so I'm not complaining. At my elevation we are having indian summer, I keep putting off cleaning up the garden because everything is just going along still. We can only plan 90 days, so this is really good. I'm setting up a long bed for winter upstairs this year, so I'll have much more to enjoy.

yes we are having lovely weather also GT, we had rain where i live all of august so its nice to get out there and tidy things up, ive started potting my rooted fuchsia and have some seeds drying out for spring to sow, so plenty to do, :o)

Lovely scenery Gt, fingers xx you do get some more good days and are able to get as much indoors as possible...........

Thanks Lincs. I'm feeling very positive about that. It is back to summer like weather, a fluke, but wonderful.

lots of fireweed there..we have it in our woods here too..lots of it..I nurtured one once..it grew to be huge!
Explain the word tiaga please? Is it a native word?

Its one of seven biomes on the earth. Also called the boreal forest. Tiaga is russian. Usually wih permafrost beneath it, there are mainly fur, spruce, pine, larch and birch. Maining this thick low-growing scrub brush. When the trees disappear further north it becomes tundra, another boime, or just higher in elevation.

I do love fireweed, I used to grow it along a bank in my last garden. I ate the tender sprouts all spring, those that matured all grew 6-7 foot tall and I broke them down when they set seed to keep it all concentrated on that bank. It was wonderful. I saw alot of teasing for growing weeds. :-)

I did not try to eat them...I imagine I must have looked them up in my herb books it was during the time I was really studying herbs that I nurtured it..it did grow tall like yours and I was made fun of as well...lol...I was into growing only natural fauna at the time, also nurtured a patch of nettles....but did have a veggie garden and lavendars and sunflowers..Echinacia for the roots and eyebright as well as chamomille and valerian.

They are a nice tender green. like asparagus. I started learning natural fauna for herbalism as well and just kept proceeding from there. I do still take to natural remedies over manufactured. I like the superstitious and magical elements of plants as well as the medicinal, like grow lavender to calm the soul and red geranium to protect the house. A funny one is always have a stranger plant your sage and never grow it alone in a bed, both to avoid bad luck. LOL.

I love those elements as well GT...it is fun..and it is real in so many ways... :)

Agreed. If we look at energy alone, each individual has a certain energy and each plant is a living individual. So it all sums up that some of this has got to be true. I believe. :-)