Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Summer Joys

Our table at the Freight House Farmer's Market

Smiling sunflowers and peacock orchids in the midst of spring and early summer honey and yellow Romano beans

Pulling stiff neck garlic.  It's now or never with this amazing wet summer.

More soil than usual but they will dry and clean up nicely in a week or two.

Copra, Spanish Yellow and Red River onions.  A bumper harvest.

Stripped of their greenery.  These will dry nicely.  And then they too will be ready for cleaning.

White lisianthus and sunflowers

Beauty in the wild.  Chickory.

The pumpkins and gourds are growing

Black raspberries - fall bearing - preparing their fruit.  A week or so away.  Can't wait to pick (and eat!) these beauties.

Gomphrena in morning dew and sunlight.
Today's Journey Joys: Cooler temperatures (84 degrees today) with sun shining bright, Jersey Giant rooster announcing the break of the morning, honey bees cleaning supers, turkeys gobbling at Farmer Husband's motorcycle, kittens playful and puffy, pole beans climbing for fall harvesting, and tomatoes red and juicy.

Melancholy

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