Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tundra life

Last night, besides being another cold cold night to watch our boys play baseball, brought a hard frost to the tundra here.

My dh and I spent about an hour covering up everything last night and the children and I spent almost that long uncovering things, putting buckets and coffee cans away, and folding up tarps.

But it was worth it. We only lost a couple of watermelon plants whose hotcaps had been blown off during the night. The potatoes got a little nipped on their highest leaves but otherwise, everything came through.

I call this picture "Follow the blue tarps".

Still, the frost has a beauty to it.

2 comments:

Mike Bailey said...

one little photo hint with the blue tarp. had you started the bottom portion of the photo with the blue tarp itself and not shown any dirt, it would have created the illusion of a longer tarp--one that stretches back as far as the imagination allows. still, it's a good shot. i would have cheated, however, and cropped it.

Technoprairie said...

Good point.