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We were fortunate to have good rainfalls and thank goodness the April frosts didn’t do any damage to my young plants.
Lee was busy digging away.
The look on her face when she saw her bird house.
I don’t know who is trying to build a nest. It is a lot of stuff trying to fit into a small little house.
I made a trellis for the snow peas two weeks ago and it is made from crape myrtle branches that Bo cut down before the Spring of this year. As you can see the crape myrtle tree in the background and the new branches look healthy.
It looks like they are climbing pretty well now, but I had to train the vines to climb at the beginning.
I have never planted pole beans before and I think they need to climb also.
I’m also training the grape vines to climb and will need to make a trellis for the climbing spinach vines soon.
My mom used to plant the spinach vines at the refugee camp in Thailand and it is called pak plunge in Thai.
I planted these pickle cucumbers from seeds, they should be climbing the A-Frame in a week or so. It is amazing how fast they grow.
Chili pepper plant.
These are my second batch of radishes and I put them down in time when the ground was still cool. They are fast growing and should be ready to harvest in a month or so.
I do love basil and planted many this year.
I planted this one in a pot and a good thing about it is that you could move it around.
More Thai basil in pots.
I think it must be the rain that made everything grow so fast. I couldn’t believe how big my cherry tomato plants have gotten.
The mints and pennyworth plants.
My gardenia plants are budding.
My blueberry plants look promising this year. I just hope that the birds will save some for us.
I would not take my chance in eating these mushrooms.
I was hoping to take a few exposures of the birds. I sat and waited and waited, and they flew right by.
The fish are so happy with the new waterfall.
Lee’s white and silver Butterfly Koi has gotten a lot bigger this year.
Bo’s ginkgo tree.
The peach tree bears many fruits this year.
Bo’s walking path is almost completed. He still has to fill in the gaps with sands, and so far it’s looking real good.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
One of the best things about visiting Grandma is her home cook meal. I was hoping to learn a new Lao dish this visit but we didn’t have enough time. There is always the next visit.
I’ve recently developed food allergy amongst other things, and dinner at her house was one of the best meals but I paid dearly afterward. Below is an elder relative portow Nee sharing meal with us.
Kang Keelek with ants’ eggs, I don’t think it gets any authentic than this.
I didn’t try Mok Padek and it looks real good.
This is the first time I’ve seen a small mango. It is slightly bigger than an egg and it’s very sweet. You don’t want to hear what Bo has to say about it.
These are eggs from her laying hens. I see a few Americana blue eggs amongst them.
Grandpa collected 26 eggs on Sunday.
Max came to visit Grandma also, and it was a bumpy one hour ride in back of a pickup truck but I’m sure it’s worth it for him to see the chickens again.
I can’t say that they fell the same way about him, Grandma was nervous seeing him pacing back and forth. I think he had killed 3 hens last year.
Her new chicks.
Grandma has a few roosters left, and this is the youngest one.
I didn’t do a good job panning, or in this case chickens run.
Her garden is coming along, she has plenty of lettuce and spring onions. The darker green color are broccoli that she planted in early Spring.
Her blueberry bushes bear many fruits this year.
This looks like a few Lao plants that I know.
And after seeing the thorns I knew it is Pak Kha. It’s great with egg omelet.
Thun Khoun
Her Persimmon trees bear many fruits this year. Sorry for the many photos and I hope you have enjoyed visiting Grandma with us.
Photos were taken with Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, and EF50mm f/1.4 lens.
We were on our way to visit grandma on Sunday and saw that it’s strawberry picking season at Carrigan Farm.
The cost is $11.00 per gallon basket pick-your-own and $13.50 per gallon basket already picked. We were allowed to roam the farm to pick our own strawberry, unlike Ira Farm that only allowed us to pick at certain row, but of course Ira Farm was a lot closer to home and I do miss that he closed his strawberry farm.
This would be a nice spot for Lee to levitate but the owner might not like it so we didn’t attempt.
Lee did a great job in picking. I was busy taking picture and ended up combining mine with hers to make a full basket, and we ended up buying the second basket that’s already picked.
Nice cool ride.
By the time we got to grandma’s house, I made a Lao dipping sauce to eat with the strawberry. The ingredients are sugar, crushed dried chili peppers, fish sauce, and crushed roasted rice.
It was real good, more photos of Grandma’s cooking, chickens and garden to come.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
I apologize for so many photos, it is impossible to take a few shots when you are at Biltmore. I will miss visiting this place in the summer, but hope to spend more time camping with my family.
Lee will miss their Margarita Pizza the most.
I’m sure she will miss their gift shops and garden as well.
The Japanese wisteria is in bloom.
This is Max’s first trip to Biltmore and he had to beg and whine before his owner agreed to bring him along.
The weather was too nice to be inside, but I paid a visit to the Conservatory because I want to see the cactus, orchids and other exotic plants.
As we drove toward the Farmyard, we saw horse trailers and thought it was a campground area. It would be nice to camp at Biltmore but I don’t think they have anything like that. This is also a nice place to go horseback riding and we passed several that were horseback riding and enjoying the scenery.
These two are handsome and they posed for me.
A view of the Farmyard, and the small black spots on top of the hill are black cows.
This is a nice way to tour Biltmore, and we never did get to ride the Segway mainly because Lee is too young.
I do love this shot, so many curious onlookers.
This looks like a mixed breed, and it is actually a feather footed breed chicken.
The mother goat gave birth to the baby the night before. I think it is kind of odd to refer to the baby goat as kid, but that’s what they are called. The kid is looking for the mother’s milk.
I was surprised to see the featherless neck chicken. This is the result of a genetic mutation, and it is to their advantage if they were to live in a hot climate environment. The bare-necked chickens are more resistant to heat and therefore produce better meat and eggs. I can’t say the same if they lived up north, the owner might have to knit scarfs for them.
By the time we got to the Kitchen Garden Lee was too tired to levitate for me, but she managed to do a few take. If you read up to this point, I want to thank you for reading my Biltmore posts and it might be a while before we could go back to visit. Biltmore is still my favorite place to visit in North Carolina.
All photos were taken with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
The video clips were shot with Canon T2i, and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
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