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Potato Blossom Time

by Staff Pioneer Times
14 years ago

Houlton Pioneer Times Photo/Joseph Cyr
NE-CLR-Potato Blossom-dc-pt-29Take a drive through the countryside these days and chances are you will spot a potato field dotted with flowering white, and sometimes pink or purple, flowers blossoming like these ones on the Bangor Road in Houlton.

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