Looking Back: Our cranberry bogs, beach photos

Here are photos from way, way back... just for the heck of it. They include photos of the cranberry bogs in Middleboro, Massachusetts which we used to own. Lots of the beach photos are on Cape Cod. They are all small so if you want to see them more clearly most of them can be clicked to enlarge.

Here's a good website with lots of photos about growing cranberries in Massachusetts. Here's a website about how cranberries are grown.

This is the bog in back of our house when it's been flooded. Won't enlarge.

There are several ways used to flood different bogs.

On Cape Cod

From my kayak on Buzzards Bay

This looks like a barn but is called a screen house because

in the old days cranberries were screened (cleaned) there

with special machine designed to bounce them six times. A good berry

bounces six times, bad one fall out of the machine before that and

are thrown away. 

Woods Hole

Cape Cod

Our cranberry harvest

The elders were using this picking apparatus when we bought the bogs.

Cranberry harvest on the bogs after we sold them

Sand is used to revitalize the vines in the winter when there's ice on the flooded bogs.

This is called a Crisafolli pump named after the inventor.

Still in business today (here)

Below: Cape Cod

From our house

Woods Hole

Little Harbor Beach

Little Harbor beach

Harvest on our bogs, this small bog was called Indian Hollow because arrow heads were found there.

One of our first harvests with the old equipment

Little Harbor Beach, Wareham

This shows the newer harvesting machine

This and below are part of our reservoir

One of our pump motors used to flood a bog

Harvest (taken from our house)

Seagull with a hackysack ball

Waves at Cape Cod National Seashore

Sunset from our house

Our regular pizza place

Little Harbor Beach, Wareham

Woods Hole

Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Woods Hole

Beach in Wareham

Cape Cod sand dunes

Woods Hole

Cranberries floating waiting to be corralled and then loaded in touch to be taken to Ocean Spray where they will be made in juice.

Winter bog with Port-a-potty

Tim DeMoranville on picking machine

Buzzards Bay from kayak

Helicopter fertilizing our bogs

Our bog manager Tim DeMoranville

for Daily Kos story:

The Cove Restaurant in WA

 Just a reminder that I continue to post political stories on Daily Kos here. Some go mostly ignored  with around 100 readers while on occasion some get around 1,000 or more. There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to why stories with some, in all modesty, with original takes on politics and very clever wordsmithing get bypassed. For example in my most recent story I suggested Trump thinks of himself as the Second but better than the first Coming.

If you happen to find yourself at Portland airport (PDX as it is referred to by locals) and want to go out to a nearby quality restaurant to eat there are two excellent choices, Salty's located on the Columbia River (website) which is in Oregon and The Cove (website) which is just across the Columbia River in Washington. Since Salty's was closed when we dropped someone off at PDX yesterday at 11:00 we planned to go there but called and found it didn't open until noon. Since it was 11:00 we called The Cove and since it opened at 11:30 we made reservations and headed there. 

Once across the 205 bridge you drive a few miles towards Vancouver on Rt. 14 and then exit and end up on a dead end tree-lined road through an industrial section, then past a section with apartments or condos and just at the end of the road you see a very large parking lot for a large condo complex and The Cove is the last building next to it.

The Cove isn't exactly on the Columbia River, it is on a cove (called The Tidewater Cove) adjacent to the river. You can barely see the river from there but you can see PDX and watch planes taking off. It was too hot to sit outside so we sat inside at a table with a good view. The meals were gourmet quality.

As for the setting compared to the restaurants on the Vancouver waterfront there's no comparison since those all are right on the Columbia River and you can enjoy the recently expanded Waterfront Park (see website):

Here are a few photos (click to enlarge):

seafood thermidor bucatini

butter poached lobster, sea scallops, prawns, meyer lemon, sherry, garlic cream, tarragon, mustard, trumpet mushrooms, reggiano parmesan, oregano crumbs

Market Seafood salad: crab, poached wild prawns, smoked sea scallops, crispy calamari, house smoked salmon, avocado, tomato, marinated edamame, pickled egg, croutons, green goddess dressing

What a concept: I actually used a paper map (remember those) to get an idea as to where The Cove was located from PDX. Of course I used navigation to actually get there.

Here's a website with numerous photos of the Tidewater Cove area.

From a blog

There's a trail along the water which begins next to the restaurant in front of the condos shown above, but it was too hot to explore it. Here's a blog posted by someone who did.

Misspelled local graffiti

 This was on the side of a fence by the Chevron station of the corner of McLoughlin and Courtney in Milwaukie, Oregon. The writer misspelled the word destruct. It isn't possible to determine whether the commentary was meant as a reaction to high gasoline prices or a more general gripe.

The question as to whether we, as human beings, are hard wired to self-destruct can be seen as a profoundly philosophical and psychological one. I'd like to find the author of this and ask what they really meant.

A car parked at Fred Meyer Oak Grove:

Here's another car: