It actually snowed here this past weekend... so it looks like "fall" is short lived in Utah. Actually, with snow in June and now in October, we think that there is pretty much more "winter" here, than any other season. As we drive back and forth to Ogden each week to attend synagogue and/or religious school, we marvel at the beautiful colors through "Sardine Canyon". Gorgeous yellows, reds, and oranges. Sure didn't get fall colors like this back in Phoenix.
So our garden is pretty much kaput now. We had our first freeze (a few days before the snow) and we went from blooming flowers to all shrivelled up. We now have lots of leaves falling in the back yard (again, due to the gigantic trees of our neighbor) and the dogs are having a blast running around on top of them.
Devon and the boys are in the process of erecting a portable outhouse for the dogs to use this winter. The canoe is now going to be occupied keeping our bikes protected from the elements and nobody liked having to beat a path out there in the snow anyway.So here are some final pictures of our garden in bloom before the dreaded freeze.
Here's two of the dahlias that FINALLY came up. They bloomed just about a week before the freeze. They really were pretty... so I guess we either need to plant them earlier next year or find a place with more sun. (Hmmm... like Phoenix?)
We only got one tiny ear of corn (about six inches long) from all these plants. Maybe we should turn this area of the garden into a corn maze for dachshunds!
We got lots and lots of tomatoes, but so many never ripened. Not willing to eat "fried green tomatoes" (because wasn't that just a movie?) we cut our loses and just ate the red ones we could harvest. Devon spent all last Sunday, turning them into salsa. We decided not to "can" the salsa because we read if you don't do it right... you can put an end civilization as we know it. So we are eating salsa every night now.
