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the pics uploaded outof order,  so you will need to rearrange them.  But I am driving to the Master Gardener's Plant Sale in Durham.   Using my PAPER  AAA Road map that i got last Thursday.  A PAPER map!   i drew the route with a pencil.  Was going to check it out with Alyssia but there was no time.  I was on my own.   So I drove.  Through vast area of grasslands,  no humans.  and occasionally,  a stand of trees along side of the highway.

I see i've lost a pic somehow.  Oh well…imagine a stand of trees along the roadside.  Then we skip to the second to last pic…

BRAIN clicks and says LOOK!   They are Walnut trees!!!!!   There are MANY Walnuts!!!  but i need to get to the plant sale by 10 am.  so i go.  

 


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i meet Jenny there and we are so overwhelmed with possibilities.  Choose some and are ready to return to the Hill and she says she will take me the fastest way back…i should follow her.  But NO…what about the walnuts?  So we go my not so fast way back and

 

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a Grocery Bag FULL.   I am so Happy,  there are no words.  Out there in the middle of nowhere there are walnut trees withe walnuts galore.  When passing them on the way there i yelled   JOANNE!   She has been bereft without the prospect of a single walnut and here…walnuts galore!  I was so happy for her,  i couldn't wait and phoned her in Maine….may i speak to Joanne? i asked….WALNUTS!

the day went on and we brought home all from the Plant Sale and that's another day and then as we were eating crispy tacos we noticed that Caroline was "flagging" at Nogal's fence,  he was beside himself with buckthings and so we let her IN and Lo and Behold,   it happened and we wrote it on the calendar…more about that later  but it was really a so great day

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18 responses to “an Excellent, Extraordinary, Beauty Full Day”

  1. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Oh grace so wonderful to see this written…..I didn’t dream it. Walnuts you are the most delightful friend I have ever known. Love to you!!

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    Delightful friend…you back
    How great, yes ???

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    What a wonderful, extraordinary, beautiful day. So happy for you. I love road trips adventures! As much as you love walnuts!
    What did you get at the plant sale?

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  4. Acey Avatar

    The walnuts interlude! There you go creating happiness clear across the country, again. Ordinary life is really quite EXtraordinary once our hearts open in this kind of way …

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  5. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Just Wow-WOWIE. I felt like I was there. Delicious Day. HOORAY!

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  6. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Fabulous events in one day! And culminating in goat sex!!

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  7. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Hey Grace
    My partner grew up in Linden which is in central California somewhere. Not sure of geography there so don’t know if it is near you. There was a walnut orchard across the street from her house. Lucky you for finding them. sounds like a lovely day all around.

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    there is more than the hill , and see you find somme nuts ” walnoten ” know the feeling of carry/love is always with you /us if we let it happen , give it space , i close my eyes and give a big hug !

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  9. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I totally understand your excitement .. last weekend going out to breakfast with Michael and his cousin I came upon very much the same sight. My goodness I was so excited and now have them safely stored away in the garage. For just the few hours i gad them sitting on the deck i had 4 squirrels chomping away. It was very funny..

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    A LOT. I will post it soon. Today, Tuesday, i spent
    time at the B garden clearing the wild grasses that took
    over. I am ambivalent about that, but if i don’t, I’ll never know what reseeds except for the oportunist grasses.
    The soil there has become otherworldly.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am beyond HAPPY!!!!!! that i can send to Joanne.
    Who lives in a state sans Walnut

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…that came as quite a surprise…for them too…once
    we let Caroline in. Maybe the most surprised and feeling Fabulous was Nogal. It was his first time.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i will look for Linden

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i close MY eyes and give a big hug to YOU

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    the sqirrels here stay FAR away, but this morning i watched one
    bounding branch to branch, closer and closer. I let Tay out.

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  16. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    I am just so tickled you got some walnuts! my beautiful Lady Black Walnut produced no walnuts this year…the “going” was good to you….

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    HELLOOOOOOOOO!
    What happened? Does this just happen now and then?
    I am SO HAPPY to find you here!!!!!

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