Plum Picking, Part 873

Another friend mentioned to me the other day that she had some sand plums on her property that I could go and pick if I wanted to - so of course, I couldn't turn her down!

After I dropped the boys off at school, and stopped at Sonic for a drink, and ran by my insurance agent's office, I headed out her direction. I had never been to her place before, but I knew it was "out in the country" as they say around here.

It. was. beautiful.

Besides the sand plum thickets that were heavy with fruit, I found lots of interesting stuff to keep my camera busy.

Found a baby locust that actually crawled onto the back of my hand before it flew away.

Apparently all sand plum thickets are required to have an old car nearby - or in this case, in the middle of it.

There wasn't much left of this one.

It was actually pretty much buried.

The horn? From what I could tell, it was the only thing left in the engine compartment, but if you look to the left you'll see a tree growing through it.

There was lots of old farm machinery around, and I had to go and explore.

Wasn't much of a cobweb, but I still thought it looked cool.

Reminds me of a scene out of "Cars".

There were some wild sunflowers growing around the area....

....and some other kind of wildflower.

The back side of the thicket, with my bucket over there on one side. I love how I managed to get the contrail from the jet without even realizing it until just now.

So now I have some more plums to turn into jelly, but I'm not working on them tonight. I didn't pay attention to the weather and it got up close to 100 degrees again today, and I left the windows open in the house. So, it's a bit warm in here. But, it's supposed to get down to 63 tonight so I'm not going to close everything up and kill the a/c to try to cool it off. Instead, I'll just relax and do some sewing. I have a whole bunch of trick-or-treat bags that I'm trying to get done for a craft show that I'm doing on October 1, so I need to get moving on those. Maybe I'll post some pictures of them when I get a few done.

Until then, I'm going to go plant my butt on the couch and sew. Or something.