Today we had a garden expert from the local nursery show up at our house to give landscaping advice. We are trying to keep things natural and fit in with the landscape rather than fight it. That means no lawn (actually that's great - no mowing either!) and replicating the grasses, wildflower, trees, and shrubs that are already here. First, we already did the wrong thing by putting wild grass seed down a month ago. Whoops - wrong time. It came up but is very spotty - oh, well. Our "gardener on the go" as she is called, was great and gave good advice. Evidently we have to wait until Sept to do anything and with the first snow fling grass and wildflower seed right on it. Yup, there will likely a scattering of snow at some point during Sept. Also She thinks it's worth a try to transplant smaller aspen and pine trees from our existing woods. They're VERY expensive to buy...
She asked about our animals here and mentioned the bear word. Since the bears on Star Mt. (however many there are) are still "wild" she doesn't think they will disturb anything. In fact, she was a little envious - she lives in town (Crested Butte) and had a bear visit three times just last night knocking over the trash can, drinking all the water in her fountain, and generally being a big nuisance. Crested Butte has a terrible bear problem right now.
For those of you who care: fishing is very good here and we have a lot of trout in the freezer. Experimenting with different recipes which is fun. Looking at this report it sounds as if I am the fisherperson - let me correct - Mark does the fishing, I eat them... One note of caution - do not attempt to put fish heads down the garbage disposal - luckily we survived one round of that without damage...
We need more pictures!
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