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"heirloom" tomatoes

"heirloom" tomatoes

According to the meteorologists (man that was tricky to spell) tonight will be our first frost. I picked the remaining tomatoes off the vine this morning. Nothing speaks of summer, life and vitality more than tomatoes picked from the garden and eaten that same day. Eating a home grown, vine ...

Photography, Soul Salve

Photography, Soul Salve

morning Masterwort Monday was difficult. Here's the run down, I: spent a fair amount of time bawling my eyes out, mourning the mortality of everyone I love. burned myself with tea kettle steam and had to do all my morning chores with salve, bandages and a glove on my right ...

Supposed to be working, photo wandering instead

Supposed to be working, photo wandering instead

Ok, I'm supposed to be working right now (self imposed) on learning objectives for this year. By the way, none of the planning stuff, schedules and such I'm doing is required by the state. I do it because I love planning, I love charts, I love organization. I'm a little ...

September Veronica

September Veronica

I'd rather buy (local) food than grow it...

I'd rather buy (local) food than grow it...

From a strictly economic perspective growing your own isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Labor Day Gifts

Labor Day Gifts

Yesterday was a wonderful day at home. I spent most of it in the garden, cleaning up perennials and harvesting the beans (post about that to follow soon). This morning's photo prompt at Shutter Sisters was about the gift of photography, "photography is a creative gift where the satisfaction of ...

Roasted Garden Tomato Soup

Roasted Garden Tomato Soup

August Juliet Tomatoes Maybe it was the week in the woods or more simply the fact that I came home to 10 lbs of ripe tomatoes on the vine (nothing's more gorgeous my friend), but I was inspired to get a little gourmet tonight. For supper I handcrafted roasted garden ...