Saturday, March 30, 2013

Spring Forward, Fall Back

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.

10 comments:

  1. Those apples made a lovely shot!
    And 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.

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    1. Thanks Lisa - yes, I actually drove home to get my camera - couldn't resist the colours.

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  2. Alexia- 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!

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    1. Sorry 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

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    2. Wow thanks! I really thought it finished tonight - will change my wording :)

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  3. A 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.
    Our 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.

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    1. 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.
      Thank you.

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  4. I've never seen Kiwi fruits growing before, either.

    A 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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    1. I'm surprised the possums haven't eaten them - guess they're too busy snacking on our native trees and destroying the forests. :(

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  5. Thank you for sharing the pictures, I have never seen kiwi growing - have only seen them in the grocer's bins.

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