July, 2021
I loved it here in this tiny little corner of Washington State, where I was boondocked on private property, very green and very quiet private property with excellent hosts. But today I needed to head out for my next destination on my three-destination trip. Darrington was first … Lake Goodwin was second … and Bremerton will be third.
But Bremerton would be such a short drive away that I elected to spend this last morning taking yet another drive with just my truck on yet another road in the area north of Lake Goodwin. Here are things I found of interest …
Bees! A veritable bees-ness. 🙂
I would have purchased some honey or honeycombs but there was no store here.
Around another turn in the road, I found this sign below … so I headed off to the left and uphill on the small road up to the church to see what I could see.
The church and the graveyard were very peaceful and, well, welcoming. And it was time to jump in the big white truck and move on up the road.
Next find … a barn!
Then there was this very interesting field below … with crops in stripes. I can’t remember ever seeing anything like this before. What might be the reason for the two different colors?
Then around yet one more bend in the road I found this field below. It felt to me like it needed a haircut and good combing. But there’s lots I don’t know about farming. 🙂
I pulled off the road and parked and walked around here for a little while.
I love the colors and textures in the photo above.
The photo below finally gave me a view of the plant growing here. But what is it? Keep in mind I took these photos in July.
The very next farm had an exquisite row of old trees lining the roadway to the house and barnyard.
And now I was back near the bee place again. Just a couple hundred feet down the road from that bee place was this huge field that grew all manner of flowers … that’s all the sign said … just “flowers”.
I liked how perfect and tidy the rows were and even the dirt was. And I wondered if maybe the bees were being “grown” so close by in order to polinate these flowers, and all the flowers to come, in this huge field.
This was another great morning. I saw lots of stuff, and yet I still hadn’t seen everything in just this one small area. But now it was time to head back to my boondocking spot near Lake Goodwin, have a bite of lunch, and then hitch up the trailer to the truck and head towards Bremerton to my next “Boondockers Welcome” destination. Come on along!
Handsome barn. I don’t know what the field of stripes is or the other one with so many colors. There’s a bee “farm” outside of town here and they are indeed raised to polinate crops hereabouts. I liked the “little white church” with your “big white truck” right along side. 🙂
My big white truck liked being up there with that little white church. 🙂
The pink flowers look like potato plants. The uncombed stuff at first glance looked like it might be fennel, but on closer inspection it didn’t meet parameters . The second picture (with the stakes so neatly piled) shows small yellow blossoms that appear to be from the same plants. No idea what it is.🤔 fun trying to figure it out, though.
Great pictures of a beautiful countryside!
Potato plants! I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one bloom. Cool. 🙂
We used to raise Italian honey bees, had six hives which kept us busy since we both worked at other “real” jobs too, and my last name starts with the letter B, so I’ve called myself Judy Bee for years. Honey bees, especially Italians, are usually gentle unless they sense their hive is being attacked, and all of them are necessary for pollination and development of some plants.
I bet you have lots of bee stories, Judy. Thanks for the info you shared. Bees need help all over the world these days. They are necessary for all life on the planet. A neighbor of mine is giving me a start of bee balm to plant in my yard to help the bees in my neighborhood.
Maybe are those Canola plants that weren’t harvested in time? Love the row of trees along the driveway to that farmhouse. I didn’t notice at first that the church was built in 1890 and the cemetery was started in 1884. We humans are busy as bees. 🙂
I know nothing about Canola plants, but looked them up online and they do indeed look a lot like the plants I saw … and the ones in the photo above sure do look like they weren’t harvested when they should have been. Yep, busy as bees. 🙂
I like walking through cemeteries. I like wandering through old cemeteries and looking at headstones and thinking about the people who came before us, sometimes way more than one hundred years before us! They are the people who made us. Even Anna Roald in the photo above who was just 18 when she died … but then Ingeborg Westli was 82 when she died. They created what we are today. Blessings to them.
I love cemeteries for the very same reasons you give, Nevada. Thank you.
What a fun post. Bees are so important in our world. The church was great. I really like the dead people too. 🙂 The barn! I’ve been trying to find out what that multi-color and multi-stemmed plant is … fennel, no … canola, maybe? … what tho? I know a lot about plants but I can’t figure this one out. In another photo, those do look like potato plants/flowers but the planting area seems so small, relatively. I’m stumped. You make me think and see the world with different eyes, Ann. Please keep doing that. My favorite photo was of the trees lining the driveway into that house/farm. So peaceful.
Like Judy Bee, my last name here isn’t actually my last name. I love plants so much that friends started calling me Ruby Begonia as a take off on the Flip Wilson jokes. And the name has stuck. 🙂
I wonder if the field right next to the flowering potato plants is planted with potato plants as well, but planted a few weeks later in order to stagger the harvesting time. Fun info about your username here Ruby. 🙂
Wanda, I looked up pictures of canola plants and they do look very similar. I had never heard of canola growing in Washington, never knew what the plant looked like. It turns out that Washington is a major producer of canola on the dry east side of the state, particularly in the Palouse in the SW corner where WSU (where Ann went to school) is located. Maybe someone was just trying out a patch of it on the west side? Anyway, thanks for the input. I learned something new.😊
Hi Fritzi, those photos of Ann’s look just like Canola plants that we saw that had not been harvested back in Minnesota when hubby and I lived there. The yellow flowers look just the same. Usually the flowers/seeds are harvested for the canola oil, the field in Ann’s photos look like it wasn’t harvested when it should have been. Maybe it isn’t canola? Or maybe the seeds never got ripe because of rain and darkness. But that’s our best guess. I’d be surprised if canola could be successfully raised in wet western WA too, it needs dry and sun. Best wishes. 🙂