pie day...

When we were in North Dakota last week

we went out and cut rhubarb.

 

I get rhubarb at this same farm

(Thanks! Wayne)

every spring it seems.

 

 

Can you remember a time when every backyard

 had numerous rhubarb plants,

a cistern and a receptacle under the down spout

 to catch soft rain water?

 

 

I always thought rhubarb was a no-fuss plant.

Not so!

 

 

They need lots of water and composting.

I learned this from an old farm wife

 that grew the biggest rhubarb plants I've ever seen.

 

 

And now I'm cutting a piece to take to my mother

who taught me how to make the best rhubarb pie

at the State Fair!

 

~(rhu)barb