{"id":102205,"date":"2022-11-26T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102205"},"modified":"2022-11-26T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:09:39","slug":"scenes-from-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102205","title":{"rendered":"scenes from November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marty, Billie & I at Cannon Beach. Photos by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How are we all holding up? Mid-term elections over, one major holiday in the can, another looming, but as usual I’m determined to go full contrarian and resist its gravity pull until the typical last-minute panic. (If Christmas involved nothing more than cookies, it’d be the perfect holiday.) Lots of family visits in November, including Mitch with his camera — these are all his images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mitch arrives in Portland, Oregon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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on the coast, Barview Jetty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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with Billie at Cape Meares Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah observing the inscrutable game of pickle ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Macaroon shopping in Astoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Admiring woodcuts at the Columbia River Maritime Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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up the Hitchcockian spiral staircase at the Astor Column, Astoria, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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view from Astor’s Column<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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maple strutting fall color, Astoria, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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lots of fine old houses in Astoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the garden front, bulbs are planted (allium, potted tulips and ranunculus, brodiaea, narcissus). Seeds from Special Plants<\/a> in England have been sown after a rather circuitous delivery route via Miami, Florida. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is now involved with ordering seeds from England, but Derry’s instructions were unfalteringly accurate and encouraging, and the bureaucratic delay was maybe a couple weeks. And the permit from USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service<\/a> allows us to take Billie on oversea vacations, if that issue ever comes up, as well as importing more seeds for the next few years. Overall, a surprisingly painless business, with the federal website working flawlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nights are dipping below 30F here, and I’ve got a little frost-tolerance experiment going with a planter of Echeveria agavoides which can reputedly take temps down to 20F. So far the echeveria are still pristine, but snow is forecast for the coming week. Into the shed they’ll go if that forecast holds. More soon — stay warm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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