Vermont is wonderful this time of year. Summer is fading but morning glories are hanging around. The weather is beautiful. Cool mornings and warm sunny afternoons.
My morning glories are three colors this year. Magenta like this one.
Pale blue like this beauty.
And darker blue like this one.
We save seeds and the colors are unpredictable. Morning glories are very popular with pollinators especially humming birds. As a result they are highly hybridized year over year. Particularly if you have specialized colors they will tend back to the dominant genetic colors over time.
My Liberty apples are nearly ripe and we will liken pick some this weekend when we have guests staying with us.
In the meantime, we have been fortunate to harvest some apples at a couple of neighbors. Older trees around here tend to be Macintosh or Empire. I think these are Empire. There is an orchard we often visit that has some very old Macintosh trees (some 100 years old) that the current owner has systematically grafted different varieties onto. He now has 80+ varieties!