The caterpillars we had in our yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina have completed their transformation. A Tiger Swallowtail works the bloom of a butterfly bush.
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6:30 AM
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Temperatures are pushing 100 already in North Carolina, and the beans are coming in. The best time to pick them is early in the morning before the heat of the day sets in. My wife was out yesterday at 6:30 in our garden in Grays Chapel. Above is a view of her picking bowl. Sure hope the family remembers her hard work this winter as we enjoy the jars she is producing.
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Wild Blackberry Cobbler

Saturday my wife Dedra and my daughter-in-law Christine took part in an annual ritual on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. They picked wild blackberries. These black jewels are plentiful this year and the girls were able to get enough for a fresh hot cobbler and several jars of jam. If you have never tasted a wild berry cobbler hot from the oven, you don’t know what heaven is.












