Re: speaking of almonds
The ' worlds smallest mountain range.' can be found in the Northern
Sacramento valley of California . The Sutter Buttes are roughly circular,
ten miles in diameter, rising gradually from the 50 foot valley floor
elevation to numerous peaks about 1600 feet. Many visualize the Buttes as a
castle, with an outer rampart wall surrounding a narrow valley moat within
which rises the craggy castellated core.
(this from a book by Walt Anderson titled ' the Sutter Buttes: a
naturalist's view')
Orchards of almonds and prunes, or rather dried plums as we are told to
call them now, are grown in the foothills of the buttes and that is where I
live. Beautiful it is, with some drawbacks. Rattlesnakes are at home in
this volcanic rocky habitat so one must be wary. Mosquitoes are rampant
for part of the year also and we really hate that. Right now, the cold is
keeping them from breeding. Hooray!
the cold yesterday did not have frost. Just freezing cold. Weird.
Sutters Mill is in the city of Sacramento. About an hour away from my
ranch.
Regards,
L
At 08:42 PM 4/8/01 -0700, Jan Smithen wrote:
>Oh Lorraine,
>
>And it's so late for frosts!
>Down here in the warmth of Southern California, I don't know where Sutter
>Buttes is! Where compared to Sutter's Mill?
> Jan
>
>Lorraine Hoag wrote:
>
> > In the almond orchard of the Hoag ranch, in the Sutter Buttes in
> California.
> > We had temps of 34 degrees at 2:00am this morning and had to turn on the
> > sprinklers. We kept the temp at 32. We hope we saved the small nuts.
> > Oh the life of an orchardist.
> > L
>
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