Today is the last day of March, and it's nearly the end of Daylight Saving in this country. (Thanks Kiwi Nomad)
I always feel sad at the thought of longer nights, dark evenings and mornings, cold and rain...
In those foreboding words from Game of Thrones: "Winter is coming!"
This morning the dog and I walked around my college's horticulture and farm unit;
we found clear evidence of the fact that we've already had a month of autumn.
All of the apple trees had rotting fruit under them -
The kiwifruit look almost ready to pick, although in fact they will
hang under the vines for at least another month.
The weather needs to get a lot cooler, to bring up the sugar
levels in the fruit, before they're harvested.
Looks like a good crop this year!
I hope you all have a lovely Easter Sunday.
Those apples made a lovely shot!
ReplyDeleteAnd I've never even seen a photo of kiwi fruit growing before. I'm surprised at how much they look like quinces (fuzzy ones, anyway). Obviously, kiwi fruit only "grows" in a grocery store in a desert like Utah.
Thanks Lisa - yes, I actually drove home to get my camera - couldn't resist the colours.
DeleteAlexia- I thought the change in daylight saving was next weekend, on Saturday night to Sunday. I will have to check now- haven't seen it advertised anywhere. I would be quite happy for it to finish now, as it is so dark in the mornings, but I never like the sudden darkness so much earlier in the evenings. It really does announce winter is coming!
ReplyDeleteSorry I did check- it finishes 3am next Sunday April 7th, falling back an hour. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=22&year=2013
DeleteWow thanks! I really thought it finished tonight - will change my wording :)
DeleteA bumper crop of kiwi fruit indeed. When I was growing up they were known as Chinese gooseberries, a term you never hear now. Whatever they are called, I love them. Brilliant photos = thank you.
ReplyDeleteOur daylight saving ends next weekend. And I will be very glad to see it go. I have been getting up in the dark for weeks now... And it will give me a sleep-in as well. I think we start it too early and continue it for too long. And yes, I do know that not everyone will agree.
I'm one of those who won't agree, EC - but like taxes. it's something one just has to accept... Ours ends next weekend too.
DeleteThank you.
I've never seen Kiwi fruits growing before, either.
ReplyDeleteA shame the deer around here couldn't get at those apples...in the winter, they ate the mountain laurel I planted and never got around to fencing in...
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I'm surprised the possums haven't eaten them - guess they're too busy snacking on our native trees and destroying the forests. :(
DeleteThank you for sharing the pictures, I have never seen kiwi growing - have only seen them in the grocer's bins.
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