concerving wild beauty

FROM THEASE BLOSSOMS COME A
TASTEY RED BALL

ARE THEY REALY WILD APPLES OR WERE THEY PLANTED? I THINK A

BIRD MIGHT HAVE PLANTED THIS ONE. I MAINTAIN IT. NUTURE IT, AND FEED IT. IN RETURN IT PROVIDES ME WITH DELICIOUS FRUIT. THANK YOU TREE.

FRUIT OF THE GODS, MOTHER NATURES BEST. ONE OF THE ONLY FRUITS THAT GROWN IN THE NORTH COUNTRY.

fall,the prettiest time of the year. colors aray, spraying the ground with many pretty colors. the leaves are used for mulch and children love to play in them, worms eat them all winter long. i never rake them, i mow them into mulch for the lawn. i love the smell of them wile i mulch them. i have many verietys in my lawn, bass wood, ash, poppelar, white oak, apple, pear, maple,hickory, though i can not eat the nuts from the trees i can eat the fruit from the apple trees. i have four nice apple trees that my dad planted from seed in my yard. and on pear.

did you know that the white ash is one of the first to shed there leaves in the fall?

and the first to have leaves on them come spring.

THE BANANA TREE? IN OCTOBER? NOPE

WAHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS A WHITE ASH TREE SHEDING IT,S SEEDS. THEY HANG LIKE BANANAS THOUGH DON,T THEY. OCTOBERS HERE AND THE LEAVES ARE FALLING. YOU EVER WONDER WHY THEY ARE CALLED LEAVES. THEY LEAVE THE TREES LIMBS AND FALL TO THE GROUND , FALL GET IT. LEAVES ARE FUN TO PLAY IN EVEN AS AN ADULT I ALWAYS HAVE THE ERGE TO RUN AND JUMP INTO A PILE OF THEM. I LOVE THE SMELL OF THEM BUT WHEN SOMEONE BURNS THEM I CAN HARDLY BREATH WITH ASPHMA. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT THE LEAF IS SAYING AS IT FLOATS TO THE GROUND./ bye mommy. the tree replys where are you going son? the leaf replys , i have been hanging around all summer long time to play with the kids, tree, watch out for those worms at night they are everywhere.

SEPTEMBER THE FLOWER OF THE MONTH IS ALWAYS A VIOLET DAISY

FIELDS ARE FULL OF THEM. THEY ARE NOT AS FRAGRENT AS OUTHER FLOWERS , BUT CAN BE USED FOR SALIDS ECT. YES THEY ARE EDIBLE. PEOPLE HAVE USED THEM TO MAKE HERBLE TEA.

from the first berries of spring that are on the brush behind the house. to the last berry the grape that ripens in the fall i can not help but wonder . i love watching the follage mature. how they got here is not realy a mystery. birds carried the seeds from outher fields. some tree roots travel under ground and imerge away from the mother plant. grape vines travel many yards underground and spring up traveling in surch of water. they climb like snakes up the trees clinging as they go.the fruit hangs in the shaddows turning from green to dark purple. nearly black.a bitter taste stays with the fruit untell mother nature sweetens them with her cool breath in the fall. it's juice makes many glasses of delisious purple drink. and the seeds are introdused back to nature.

for years , golden rod has taken a bad rap as being the culprit for sore runny eyes and allergys. it is not the plant but tree pollen thats the culpert. i also have allergies to tree pollen and i have waded through fields of goldenrod and never had a reaction to it. fields of yellow, just a way that nature brightens up the summers end. a field turns many colors through out the summer months and in to fall.

up untell a few years ago i rented out the two fields i have for hay that a farmer wanted for bedding. i made a lousy 125 a year but i wanted to let it go back to nature. trees shrubs and home to any wild life that wanted to live there. giveing back to nature is so rewording. mowing and grooming the trails is also rewording.

one of my favorit plants i have going right now and for fours years. i have persimmon trees that have taken to our cold weather.i started them from seed i brought home from north caralina. it took a year to get them going inside the house , i was leary of placeing them out doors. i fenced them in and now have four healthy trees growing. they take years to grow but i can wait.

many plants i have never seen before were lush and full of blossoms this summer.

this summer we had many inches of rain causeing the follage to be thick and heavy, the ground softened and many trees fell with a little help of the wind.

hundreds of pounds of apples were the bounty of a good summer. sweet juicy, suculent , aromatic red delisious apples. thank you johny.

it wasn't a wonder my wife was excited when she happened to look out thekitchen window and saw our visitors.she

people ask me why i waist my time pruneing apple trees and cutting trails and mowing paths to the woods. theres the answer. two baby fawns and there mother 20 feet from my back door. how much better can it get. theres your answer. standing next to a colorado spruce i planted nearly 15 years ago. only one outher time did we have deer visit our yard, i had a movie camera back then and three deer came out to munch on some apples i had in my yard. a sight for sore eyes.









MILK WEED PLANT, AMAZINGLY AROMIC FLOWERS GROW ON THE TOPS. EARLY SUMMER. WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIELDS THAT HAVE MANY OF THEM GROWING IN THEM. YOU,LL STOP AND SMELL THE BEAUTIFUL PERFUME THE FLOWERS PUT OFF AND WONDER WHERE IS THAT SMELL COMMING FROM.AFTER THE BUDS COME OUT AND THE PODS BEGIN THEY LOOSE THAT ODER . THE PLANT IS OFENCIVE TO FARMERS BUT CAN BE A LIFE SAVER FOR A PERSON LOST IN THE WOODS. YOU CAN EAT THE BABY SILK PODS. MAKE TEA, AND EVEN SPIN YARN FROM IT'S ADULT PODS. IT'S MILKY SUBSTANCE IS SAPOSED TO BE POISINOUS. BUT IT IS SO STICKY YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO PUT IT TO YOUR MOUTH.. FUNNY HOW MANY THINGS IN THE WILD THAT CAN BE EATEN WITHOUT WORRY. DIG UP A CAT TAIL AND ON THE ROOT THERES TOENAIL LOOKING BULBS. SNAP ONE OFF IT HAS A NUTTY TASTE. COOK OR EAT RAW. PUT IN SALADS. VERY TASTEY TREET WHILE HUNTING.

this is an apple tree i have pruned for years in ther woods that was loaded this year, tasty fruit. i took two wagons full of them back into the woods for the deer to nibble on. there are a lot of apple trees back there but this year they were a little scarse so i just added a few.

have you ever seen one of thease plants in your back yard . very rare find.it is the size of a baseball. now watch when it turns.and is ripe. unedible i,m shure. i will have to look up it's name . it turns blue but the insides are white with seedsof red i believe.very percular plant. grows on a vine. this was last summer not this past summer. there wasn't one there this year.

my crab apple tree is so heavy with fruit this year it is bending to the ground. i wish i knew how to make jelly. i made a gallon of pickeled crab apples and they are great. i have been picking them and eating them every day. the deer will love the ones i don,t use.

this years apple crops all over were great. some trees though didn,t produce yet outhers were bountiful. there were no grapes to speek of this year,usualy the woods are full of wild grapes. yet the outher wild poison berries had a great year, i have a tremendous amount of honeysuckel bushes out back . they are pretty to look at and smell good but the red berries are poisones. it is an avasive plant that will overcome the woods if not dug up. stupid me , i can remember seeing the first few plants and saying how nice they looked not knowing what would come of them. now i have to work very hard to get rid of them.

they do look good don,t they. but they will dry your mouth out so bad you won,t swallow again. this is what the flower looks like it.s not a wonder why people put them in there garden.

is this a ginsing plant? looks like one but might be anouther plant that looks like it. there are only a few that i find every year. the roots of a ginsing plant can bring up to 100 dollors a lb. so it would be worth knowing. i would collect the seeds.

this little guy is a ten year old chest nut tree i planted out side many moons ago it took two years just to show up. i saw the tiny shoot pop up from the ground and quickly sorounded it with wire. it has been growing for over ten years. i do not know where i got the nut it,sellf i think arond xmas time when you roast them. i pushed this one into dirt with my heal never exspecting to see it again. today after a good summer for it it stands about 4 feet tall. vey proud of it.

this is why i love working with the land and doing what i do for the land. being a concervationist makes it all worth while when you can walk out back and see this. Make sure you check out our family blog www.wrightfamilychronicles.blogspot.com

this is my lane once a county road, and abanded years ago.

i have been a conservationist for many years, planting trees, wild flowers and relocateing shrubs . takeing care of apple trees that have started from a bird or squirrel carrying the seeds from one place to anouther. cutting trails not just for me to walk in but for deer to walk so they can concerve there strength durring the winter months. pruneing trees and shrubs so the birds have shelter and food. spredding wild flower seeds from one section to anouther. and this is the results after many years of hard work.

the first picture is where we live that once used to be a carn field. i planted most of the trees after i cleared all the unwanted brush and made a beautiful yard . i now have apple trees that produse much fruit. i have a butter nut tree that i planted it is over so feet tall and produses lots of nuts. the colorado blue spruce trees are big and beautiful. in the spring the apple trees blomb and smell so aromatic. you can watch the bees up close working hard to make shure every blossom has be touched, i don,t think they have a clue what they have done. they are looking for pollen and inturn created the most delisious fruit known to man, the oders of wild flowers begin to fill the air. milk weed smells so good when walking through a field filled with them. like a french perfume.fresh daisys fill thegreenery with dashes of yellow bringing the field to life. crab apples begin there childhood developing into a delisious tiny apple chaped like a pear.there are more than 7000 diferent kinds of apple species in the world and new york has 2500 of them. in my back yard alone i have many different verieties, in the front yard i planted 4 trees that my dad had started from seed and they all produce.