Long ago and far away (you’ll remember, I’m sure) I visited a place called the Blueberry Farm Park in Tacoma. It was a very old blueberry farm where the original farmers were long gone, as were their farm buildings and their home.
When I first visited there (first photo below), the farm and the blueberry bushes could hardly be found among the blackberries and other invading shrubbery, though there was some evidence of blueberries (including one, lone blueberry that tempted me to pick it).
Well yesterday, on a bright and sunny day, I just happened to drive by that same Blueberry Farm Park on my way to some important chore, and I turned my head to the left and … oh my goodness, the farm has been cleaned up!
Look at this! Obviously, a whole bunch of people worked really hard to clean out this place. Kudos to them.
The plants were beautiful … and apparently healthy. They were all moving into their autumn color and it was so pretty.
The photo below is one I took of a solid mass of blueberry bush on that last visit over a year ago, in the summer last year.
The photo below is a photo from this current visit … the “solid” mass of blueberry bush was now showing its brilliant red autumn stem color and it had lost almost all of its leaves, heading into winter.
It’s amazing to me how plants know what to do. How do they know?
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