2006-11-15

843. Winter Stores

mountain ash —
clumps of berries beside
last year's

[Notes]

10 comments:

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

nice!

Anonymous said...

(-;

Anonymous said...

There is a gorgeous one on my way to work... but none left over from last year. I think the birds save them for spring

John McDonald said...

nice one
john

Pat Paulk said...

Love it!!

Bill said...

Pure observation but eloquent observation as well. That's haiku!

polona said...

interesting... birds here seem to be crazy about these berries... have never seen any leftovers...

Masago said...

Andrew: Thanks!

Senile (I mean SB): ;-]

Pamela: Yeah, around March/April they get pretty hungry.

John: Thank you.

Pat: I'm pleased you like it.

Bill: Thank you for your kind words.

Polona: Yeah, they can really devour them. We've had a couple of good growing season so these berries here are quite abundant.

Anonymous said...

Interesting berries, really. Taste of an old wine? Vsop-brandy? (Or was that 'vsop' meaning at least 12 years old?)

Masago said...

Tikkis: Until you mentioned it, I hadn't thought the mountain ash berries were good for anything but food for the birds. :-) However, I did Google on "mountain ash wine" and apparently folks make wine out of it. I'm not sure if it tastes like vsop though (vsop is a form of cognac).