On friday morning Lucy the puggle princess woke up to SNOW!!!!
Lucy LOVES snow!!!
Once we got the leash on her she pretty much bolted out the door {and had us running after her} to frolick in the snow. She would walk about two feet, sample snow, walk another two feet, sample some more snow, and on and on it went for a solid thirty minutes. The Girl and I were freezing by the end of her rather slow half mile walk so we decided to let her loose in the backyard and went inside to make hot chocolate until Lucy had had her fill.
However I don’t think Pinky and her flock are fans of the fluffy white stuff. They looked stunned. Frozen stiff almost. 😉 I guess this means I need to dig their scarves out of the closet and bundle them up.
Swiss chard status: Floppy with a punch of color
And these purple berries! Aren’t they gorgeous? The Girl and I spotted them on our walk downtown the other day and I have no idea what they are. Anyone know?
Have a great Monday everyone,
~ Mavis
Sharon says
I believe that the purple berries are a beauty berry bush. I see a lot of them down here in the Southeast.
Ellen in Clackamas says
Mavis, those are called “Beauty Berries”. It is a small shrub that gets little white flowers and green leaves in the spring, then in the summer the berries start forming. In the fall the leaves all fall off so you can see the berries better!
Barb Neubauer says
Yep, it’s a Callicarpa. Easy to grow.
erinsuzanne says
American beautyberry….great wildlife food, and gorgeous to boot!
Chris M says
Page “38!” (in the Butchart Gardens guidebook) LOL! My husband and I were visiting several years ago, saw something similar, and asked the close-at-hand gardener. That’s the answer we got. Evidently, he got that question a lot! Tourists! What can I say? Still makes me laugh 🙂
Leslie says
Beauty berries!! Love love love those 🙂
Carrie says
There are a lot of cultivars of beauty berry. The one native to the southeast has much bigger berries (almost blueberry size). The birds love it but they are no edible for humans.
Cody says
Beautyberry leaves are used by farmers as mosquito repellant.
Christine Hagen says
They look like beauty berries. If they arr they make great jelly.
Renay says
Beauty berries….problem is, if you cut them and bring them in, they don’t last hardly a day! ;-(
Cynthia Cunningham Platon says
I know where you saw those plants as I have admired them too. I went to Watson’s yesterday and they will have them in the spring. Yes, they are a variety of beauty berry. I want the more compact Callicarpa Issai.