Dave, calling Dave!

Oh be still my heart....grin

hahaha

OH Dave, look Dave, LOOK!!!!
I had to hand pick some of the ripe ones here.
I'm here until wednesday or thursday probably, and if they are not ripe by then, I'll be back in a week ^_^

Hey Kassy, is that the Ampelopsis fruit?

Grapes Dave, Grapes!!!!

Some are still green so I just hand picked a few to show you ^_^

Grapes, oh my, Grapes!

Jam, Juice, and Wine!

Are they good eating?

They remind me of the ones my Dad planted when I was young............not sweet, but then I like currents and they aren't either.
Did you see the Inn that I found for you?

Hey Dave, any idea as to what this might be?

Cattails

Hard to tell from the leaf Kassy. Need to see flowers and/or seed-pods.

Nice Cat-tails, do you eat them?

Can you eat cattails??

Kassy your grapes look like muscadines. Do they have a thick skin? I think you eat the tubers under the cat tails. When Dave gets back he can tell us for sure. don't know if any other part is edible or not.

Well I need to go back out to the forty in the spring, because BF said there are flowers out there then.
Thanks anyway Dave, I thought I would ask. All that was around of them was single leaves......

But you gotta see some of the pictures I just took here before supper.
I happened to be by my butterfly bush when this one was there ^_^

kassy give it a chomp & see how it is...ha, kidding! Boy you guys are brave, i don't think I'd eat a cat tail.

oooh very cool!

I was trying to get a picture of this................

and another

Kassy, they are so pretty!

not really on the eating cattails but they make awesome fish bait when mixed right...stinks to high heaven but you get the biggest catfish with it!

There are some cat tails in the ditch on the road we walk daily. Told Jo we ought to get some to eat. Was seriously informed that she was having none. Guess that lets that off, know who's the boss. Hen-pecked don't you know.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you............I got lucky ^_^

Beautiful birds & butterfly's!

Jim is right, the young tubers can be eaten like potatoes.

The tail itself can be steamed when young (still green) and eaten like corn on the cob.

I think Jim has a good handle on how Admin is dealing with our presence. They want to hide us away, while more and more members are enjoying the plant talk and socialization.
Maybe Admin could create a forum that is all inclusive; subscribers, non-subscribers, photos, and any kind plant talk!

Jim rattle your chain ;) Isn't Jo the brave one who ate head cheese?
Dave...not corn! lol

I'm with you Dave, The things they say don't ring true. Intimidation. Remember the original thread, how many posts, how many views. Somebody out there likes the brand of foolishness combined with the pictures and pland id's we do. If the hello thread had been started by Moon they would have already have shut it down. Had new blood.

Yeah Dave..............clapping on your comment here ^_^

You ever ate any of that hog head cheese? Terrible!!! The ones that eat it lace it with pepper sauce. Won't try a cattail? Told her I was picking some purslane leaves to put in the salad for tomorrow (grows every down here), "you're not putting it in my salad." The last adventuresome move she made was when she married me. Hummm, maybe that's the reason she won't take a chance on something new, now.

yeah Jim too!! I knew I wasn't the only rebel ^_^

LOL Jim

heck no I have never had head cheese....

OOPs forgot to put this in for Ican when she went to find where north was......

Sweetheart, you haven't missed a thing. Even pickled pigs feet are better than head cheese.

You are right Kassy, I am a Rebel and not just because I am from the south. I get bull-headed and mean when I think I or somebody I like is being pushed around. All their logic sounds like so much hog wash to me.

here you go Lynn

Those are sharp rocks. Are they all along the water edge?

oooh nice kassy! water looks fine too!

Hog Head Cheese? Yuck!

That's it, I'm becoming a vegetarian.

lol dave, i didn't figure you for a big meat eater, you seem far too health conscious for that.

Tell me about it Jim!
No, you just did tell me about it..........LOL

I likes me cheeseburgers!

I tried to get pictures of loons on the river in NH, but the pics came out all blurry. Sun was so bright i was shooting blind.

Jim maybe she figures nothing can top that adventure, why try?

Nice pictures kassy. You get rally nice closeups. Mine always blurry.

Dave I feel privileged to have come across foolishness, pictures and plant IDs. I have seen and learned more the last few days then in the last 10 years. Probably just because it has been fun instead of hum drum