Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Summer's Bounty

Sunflowers sweet and golden (photo by Stacy Z)

Still picking..... accompanied by Ally's new little kitten.

My good friend Stacy picking blueberries and being "helped" by Lil' Boots. Love that hat!

Stacy and Ally among the blueberries.  Eat two, pick one.....

My predator kite - keeping birds and bunnies away....

95 degrees, hot and humid.... but still going.  The berries delicious!

Judy, (Ally) and Amy.  New U-pickers on our farm.  They were great pickers! Ally sang to them all morning. :-) 

Shasta daisies smiling.

Don't you just want to grab a bunch and plop them in your mouth?  Ah.... yum!

Ally's first pint she picked all by herself.  I think there is a young farmer here!
Today's Journey Joys: cool morning showers, honey harvest of spring clear honey and summer golden honey - creamy tasting and oh-so-smooth, breakfast of coffee and yummy treats with friends, an adventurous trip to California for Dad and Ben, fall pole bean planting, dreams of remodeling and building a "farm kitchen".

Melancholy

I shouldn't write when I'm feeling like this.  Emotionally fragile and oscillating between tears, fears, and frustration.  Yet ...