My little corner of the world, there is a neighbor's pomegranate orchard in the foreground, the grey spot in the middle of the picture is my house. Then most of the rest of the green in this picture are orange trees, it smells wonderful here in April with all the orange trees in bloom. I will have to take a winter picture when you can see the Sierras behind these foothills and all the snow.
It is old, ugly, utilitarian, and it's mine, it keeps the livestock, the dogs and me in and when it's locked it keeps everything else out.
Don't know if these are table grapes (I think they are) or wine grapes, the vines were heavy with grapes, I thought about walking across the road to get a picture of some of the clusters of grapes.
Farmers right now DO NOT want Rain, these are paper trays of raisins out to dry, any rain right now would devastate their crops.
It was supposed to be 103 today ............. well it turned out to be 106.
the raisins drying are something i've never seen even in photos before! and your gate does everything a gate is supposed to do - with a wreath attached. :)
ReplyDeleteHello, what a beautiful setting, you really live in a country postcard. Love your gate, keeps everyone safe, does it`s job. Great grapes,sure is a big vineyard.. Blessings Francine.
ReplyDeleteLovely to go along with the drive today... I too have never seen raisins done that way - so interesting....
ReplyDeleteRaisins used to be dried on wooden trays, that required storing them for the winter and then there was the problem of cleaning dust, dirt, spiders, etc off of them for the next years use. The paper trays are far more sanitary, light weight and don't need storing. I have seen where there has been a threat of light rain, workers will come and fold the paper over, then come back after threat of rain and open them out again. Of course any significant rain would ruin the crop. Most of the growers here are with Sunmaid raisins, look for the red box next time you are in the grocery store.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen raisins drying before. I guess it is the one time you wouldn't want rain. The scenery is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteTL....thanks for showing us your corner of the world. Love your gate!.. I don't think it's ugly at all
ReplyDeleteI've never seen raisins drying either. I love your gate too and I think we will have one like that up soon. Some of this looks like where we are, but no orange groves up here. We're at the southern most end of the Sierras, with the Tehachapi range to the south of us.
ReplyDeleteHow do you survive in that continued heat??!
ReplyDeleteI really like your gate. Yup, I really do.
P.S. I read that raisins used to be dried on iron racks which was part of the reason they were so high in iron.
I'll bet it does smell heavenly in the spring with all the orange blossoms! It's good to know that Sun-Maid raisins really ARE just grapes and sunshine! I always buy the red box, they are sooo much better!
ReplyDeleteLove the wreath on your gate too! :)
Oh my goodness! What a beautiful place you live in. I have never seen a pomegranate orchard before nor raisins drying in the sun! I love your gate, wouldn't mind having one myself. Thanks for the visit. I will be back. Still can't imagine that view of the mountains.
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