Party On

The last party of the 2015 season on Saturday had a pretty good turnout by the membership. The predicted rain held off and it was a beautiful day! For those of us who stayed beyond the noon hour - it was downright July like - a real treat for mid-October. Shoes and sweater removed with toes and hands in the dirt - I'm grateful.

Enjoy this balmy weather while you can because ya know that the inevitable will occur - wet dark and rainy days are ahead of us. A few snaps from the work party and last week's rainy weekend (perfect for fall gardening). Thanks everyone for helping to put our beautiful Kitsilano community garden to bed. But... party on... there is still lots of abundance in our urban sanctuary... both culinary and visionary - even in the rain. Enjoy and see you guys in 2016!

Beautiful breezy September work party

A lovely breezy morning for being in the garden. Thanks to everyone who turned out for our Kits Garden September work party including a few of our newest members. A small but effective group that spruced things up for the gradual inevitability of fall. It seems like overnight the season has changed. However, our harvest continues with the harbingers of fall making inroads - spiders are busy weaving their webs... the chinese lanterns are turning a glorious orange and shedding their skins... the sedum 'autumn joy' are coming into their gorgeous light and deep pinks... and the dahlias are still cheery and strong.

This pretty crystal ball showed up recently in the garden... look

I thought the crystal ball looked familiar :) - Radicchio in east garden

Little B - our unofficial garden mascot - helping in the compost

Enjoy these still warm days and the visual and textural beauty of the seed heads and pods... for you know that at our last work party of the season in October it will be cool and probably be raining!!

A-dorable

 Gorgeous chinese lantern after shedding their orange skin - the seed is exquisitely within

 Yum - last of the raspberries - East Garden

Chinese lantern decorations

Tussie-mussie

Dahlia - bigger than my head (which I guess is not that hard as I have a pin-head)

Young to old ala chinese lantern style

2015 July Work Party & Potluck

It seems luck is always on our side as just as soon as we had finished all our garden chores and feasted on a wonderful variety of home made goodies - the rain started up. Although not for long enough! The rain I mean. The food that everyone brought this year was fantastic, a cornucopia of taste sensations. I think that everyone had an elegant sufficiency. A few images from the day.

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