Garden report: I have a variety of volunteer mushrooms, in the lawn, on trees, fallen branches. They come in a variety of colors and sizes.
The tomatoes, beets, beans and onions are harvested routinely, but I need boots to get to the raised beds.
The Fort River has flooded the golf course. That has been a common occurrence with heavy rain, but the depth and size of the flooding is the most many of us long-timers have seen. At Groff Park, the river is level with the bank.
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Cynthia Holmes of Amherst sent a postcard of a wolf from Boulder, Colorado, where she had “family fun with son and more in Denver and environs. Good to see new vistas,” she wrote.
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Mary Carey of Amherst emailed me a copy of the postcard that she sent from Croatia but never arrived. She was there for a 200-hour yoga teacher training program. “We practice in a garden with fig, lemon and olive trees and have salads with lettuce and arugula from the garden. The six students are from all over the world,” she wrote. The postcard had a view of a sun-washed town with terra cotta roofs situated on a bay.
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Brian Messier sent me an email with the good news that the Orchestra in the Orchard program is back.
The performances will be held Aug. 4, 11 and 18 at 6 p.m. at Small Ones Farm, 416 Bay Road. Park in the field off of Middle Street. Brian will conduct the concerts of octets and dectets.
“Performances are free (donations accepted). Pie and ice cream will be sold at intermission. Audience members are welcome and encouraged to bring a picnic dinner to eat during the first half of the evening,” he wrote.
The fruit for the pie is grown on site. You can see the peach trees and raspberry bushes.
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A bear and three cubs were seen in a Sunset Avenue backyard last Saturday morning. The resident thinks it’s a different family than the ones that travel through Amity Place routinely.
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