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| Apple and pear orchards sleep in snow on the slopes below the Manastash Ridge. All is quiet before winter pruning starts. |
| This January has not brought the heavy snowfall of other years. A light dusting has vanished with the warmer weather. |
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A thin snow covers the orchard floor in a typical Kittitas Valley winter. A wind machine, blades at rest, will be put to use when spring comes and frosts threaten new formed fruiting buds.
| White blossoms can be seen in the Bartlett and D'Anjou pear orchards. The air is heavy with the smell of new cut grass between the rows of another young orchard planting. |
| An eastward view of one of the orchard blocks backdropped by Kittitas County's Badger Pocket area. |
Part of a row of lombardy poplars is cut to improve air drainage for frost protection.
| A block of apple trees is reworked by grafting. Nurse limbs are left for the health of the tree while new wood is grafted onto the main trunk and other side limbs. Interested in trying your hand at saw kerf or bark grafting? A photographic Step by Step How To series can be found at www.ncw.wsu.edu/treefruit/graft/ . |
View of Eberhart orchards and the Kittitas Valley taken from the Pump Ditch.
At nightfall in early summer a chorus of croaking frogs serenades
us from the canals and ponds.
Apples grow to size in the good old summer time.
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| A good set of Bosc Pears. | Apples in the summer sun. |
| In fall the windbreak Lombardy Poplars become golden sentinals along the edge of the ruddy leaved orchard. |
In November fog softens the outline of trees and muffles the sound of birds.
Sunset sky over western hills of the Kittitas Valley.
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