These are all photos that Mark took, and since I've been slack about posting this month, I'm taking the chance to show off his work.
Here are rosehips, from the rugosa in the front yard, I think. The gallica in the back still has a few blooms, or did until the winds last weekend, but the rosehips are making a fine display.
You can eat rosehips, just don't eat the hairy bit in the middle. Ptah!
Crocus! The kind that produces saffron--see the lovely yellow stamens? The bulbs were planted years ago, and only now do we have more than three showing up in a year.
Mark harvested the saffron and made saffron rice.
A white slug. I've never seen one all white before. I'm much more used to the small brown ones and the big banana slugs (childhood memories of stepping on a banana slug, and the slime making everything stick to one's bare foot afterwards).
It's rather beautiful in a slimy translucent way.
2 comments:
Sooooooooo beautiful!!!
How does one harvest the saffron?? I've always wondered.
Mid-morning on a sunny day, pick the whole flower, remove the stamens carefully indoors. That's why he waited and took photos of the flowers before harvesting.
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