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The landscape is quite beautiful, mostly grazing country (the field in the foreground is the only one I saw cultivated).

Those clumps of dead stuff are blackberry that has been successfully poisoned. On they way out to the block I saw a sign on the roadway saying "Have you treated your blackberry".

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  1. diane bMarch 24, 2014 at 11:48 PM

    It looks like an add for Meadow Lea. Sorry not to have been around for a while. Computer problems.

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    1. Joan ElizabethMarch 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM

      Or those ads for Bega cheese. The coastal areas do of course look green like this a lot of the time.

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  2. UnknownMarch 25, 2014 at 5:12 AM

    And what a lovely green it is!

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  3. SusanMarch 25, 2014 at 6:41 AM

    Gorgeously green :D)

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  4. VickiMarch 27, 2014 at 5:48 PM

    As much as I love eating blackberries, I'm very pleased to see sprayed blackberries.

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    1. Joan ElizabethMarch 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM

      I can't even enjoy eating them. The pesky things have caused so much anxst in my gardens.

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