Such Bounty

This post is dedicated to the bounty we enjoy at this time of year… This week nature has been at my fingertips outside and in…

First the picking… (and pricking!)…then the jam and jelly and tarts and buckets full to freeze for far-off grandbabies that like them in their pancakes…

Zucchini was slow this year, at my house, but this one (?!) was gifted to me to turn into relish… and my favorite cupcakes.  LOL.  I made the batter and forgot to put the zucchini in!  So we had zucchini-less cupcakes.  Sigh. ( Dry.)

A cup of tea anyone?  My chamomile is thriving this year.

Picked (and blanched) my first pole beans today!

And a host of little tomatoes…

and tomatillos

We are blessed with so much…

“You have crowned the year with Your bounty, And Your paths drip with fatness.”
Ps. 65:11

--LS

The Finest Moments

Some of the finest moments of summer are the ones…

…spent lying like a beached whale soaking up sunshine.  The water’s frigid this year;  only kids and well-insulated adults stay in for more than a few minutes. But the sun is hot and it’s nice to know the water’s there.  So we try to get away as many afternoons as we can to some beach or other to store up Vitamin D for winter…

But sometimes we wonder why we bother to leave the house when we have our own park right out back.  And it is quite fine to have a picnic and tea right there…

The bees and moths are busy doing the same thing, (well, not the tea) quite unmindful of the messiness of my happy  tangle of a garden.  They love the flowers best, as do I.

 

For the first time this year I grew tomatillos  and hot little peppers.  Made a wee batch of our own garden-grown Salsa Verde last night.  With fresh cilantro and a touch of lime it brought back memories of Mexico and was so yummy there was no chance to get a picture!

“I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.”
–Eccl.3:12,13