Salmon Brook Farms

Christmas was quiet and peaceful, just the two of us.  The red table cloth and tiny table top tree with mini-lights deployed, then put away after dinner.  There was much to be thankful for this...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the-final-post-salmon-brook-farms-winter-2023/

Rick and I will have been on this farm 20 years come December.  The two original cats that moved here with us from Connecticut, both elderly, have been long gone. Nature abhors a vacuum, and cat...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2023/09/30/rick-and-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-summer-and-autumn-2023/

Our feature photo is of our female persimmon tree after a late February snowstorm.  Same tree, different season.  If you look carefully, some of last year’s fruit is still clinging to the bra...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-spring-2023/

Our feature photo this season was taken on a frosty morning back on December 17th.   It is the female tree of a male-female pair of persimmon trees planted by the old owner’s parents.   As ...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-fall-winter-2022/

Our feature photo this season is of the trumpet vine, blooming at its peak at the end of July.  This tough old vine has weathered the summer well and is still producing enough blooms to attract ...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-summer-2022/

The winter days have quickly passed into spring, bringing forth new life and new beginnings.  The sun’s rising point has moved northward along the eastern ridge, and with it, the days have gro...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2022/05/01/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-spring-2022/

Our feature photo this season is of a golden crowned kinglet that paid a visit on November 16th.  Early that chilly 34 degree morning, I heard a thud on my office window and looked up to see tha...

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The usual autumn leaf colors here tend towards a dull yellow which quickly fades to crinkled brown and quietly slips away with the daylight hours.   Blueberry and snowball bush add a darker, al...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-autumn-2021/

It is high summer here on our little farm in the Cascade foothills, on the other side of solstice.  The long, cool, but insufficiently rainy spring ended,  throwing us rather quickly into not o...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-summer-2021/

Everything is temporary.  The seasons, and the years, come and go on our little farm in the Cascade foothills.  Come December this year, we will have been here 18 years, and our lives and our f...

https://salmonbrookfarms.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/rick-lavinia-ross-salmon-brook-farms-spring-2021/