Edible Flowers ❀❀❀ Pansys ✿ ✿ Johny jump ups ✿ ✿ viola ✿ ✿ Jumping jack

Edible flower Black Pansy + gourmet flowers

While most people wont even consider flowers in food, me on the other hand find the consumption logically essential. If dietitians call for eating every colour of fruit and veggie possible then what would consuming a flower with all those phytochemicals do?  I find it humorous to think there is a whole class of food/ nutrients not even being consumed all because the idea of eating a flower seems "silly", when what really is silly is not eating them at all.

I tell ya, there is not a dish that doesnt look better for having them in it, even burgers, it just seems to make everything look like high class cuisine if you ask me. If you really want to impress your friends, when bringing a cake for birthdays/gifts/ or parties, take a few seconds to add some neatly placed flowers around and watch how your cake goes from (nice) to (food network fantastic).

If your are interested in edible flowers here is a few links with lists of edible flowers you might like.

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blflowers.htm

http://whatscookingamerica.net/EdibleFlowers/EdibleFlowersMain.htm

Edible flower Pansy 

( Johny jump up blend )

?These look stunning on a white cake?.

( Earwig eaten pansy )

 ( Viola - jumping jack - Johnny jump up )

( Edible flowers - Pansy Hybrid )

This tops my list for best looking flower on food, put a couple of these on a burger with some veggie and youve got a $100 dollar burger IMO.

( Salad with edible flowers )

Just remember, when people look at you weird for putting flowers in your food, just look back at them weird like, ......you dont put flowers in your food ? Its all relative.

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◊ ♦ ◊ Gold in madoc ◊ ♦ ◊ 金 Theres gold in them there hills!! 金

Location is secret, the stash is plenty, the element is in question. Is it gold flake on this quartz or some form of pyrite? I believe its gold....well, Im hoping its gold. If its true, this might mean there is more in this little off road area, tucked away in a place never mined before.

As you can see, the pieces were substantially large in some areas. Compared to my hammer, its a decent sized specimen.

This is probably my favourite of the bunch, it glows a shimmering gold colour in any light. from front to back its got showings of gold.

Uraninite? combination specimen

(If anyone can help me with this I would appreciate it) 

There is quartz on the bottom with what appears to be a layer of pyrite followed by these black crystals BUT WAIT!! to the left of those crystals/gems is a tiny piece of galena. I need to take a better photo as my iphone just wasnt getting a good shot. but its quite easy to tell in person that its galena, so, that leaves me with these mystery crystals/gems. all in all, 4 elements on one matrix makes me one happy hiker.

Is the black mineral uraninite?

 Another shot, still cant see the galena but it gives a better showing of the quartz.

 any ideas? shale with iron staining?

 Its seems to have pyrite on some samples.

 schist?

View of everything collected in Madoc trip. Large batch of gold covered quartz separated into two categories, quartz with visible gold on/in it, and D grade gold quartz, barely visible with gold but from the same area.

 Another large quartz with gold wrapping around it.

 This is the last of the large gold covered quartz, WOW, what a looker.

 One more shot of the mammoth quartz gold rock.

 Found this in my backyard, It seems to have many fossils in it.

There seems to be three different fossils embedded that I can see so far.

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Apple rust ◊ and colloidal silver gold ◊

We just noticed rust on our apple tree the other day, since weve heard of using colloidal products as a form of disease control we decided to give it a shot, so far it does not look like its working, but sometimes in life, it gets worse before it gets better. The one issue I was not happy with was how a local ant colony seemed to be feeding off these rust lesions, I tried (orange guard) which was suppose to work on ants + the aphids they were hoarding, it did not work. I tried hot pepper spray, they went away and then came back in ten fold. Frustrated, I tried many different ways until I came up with an idea to try a product I had all but given up on ( at least for bug prevention )
Diatomaceous earth - I figured I had enough lying around I would give it a shot, as soon as I dusted the tree I could see the exodus. By the next day it was empty of ants and only a few aphids remained. By the third day, I noticed a few determined ants had somehow made there way to the very top where the Dia earth had mostly dispersed from wind gusts. There determination is impressive to say the least, but necessary intervention is paramount in order to save the health of the tree and the production of its fruit. I grow many other plants for them to gorge on, so they should have plenty of options for dining, just not on the fruit trees.

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