Welcome! I'll admit, that I'm a bit surprised to see you here.... I guess I just didn't expect you back so soon....Somewhere along the way I lost track of your brethren July and August (I lost touch with May and June quite a long time ago now). Of course it's always lovely to see you. You know that you've always been very near and dear to my heart. I do hope you will stay long enough for us to get reacquainted. In fact, I'm hoping for a downright leisurely visit...
Our last few days of August into the first few of September were busy ones. It seems like they were filled up with a lot of "lasts". What I can only presume was our last swim of the season, our last batch of sumac tea, the next to last harvest of basil, the last of summer vacation before we start our "school" work for the year.
We went swimming at our favorite spot and when that quickly proved too cold, we played hide and seek in an adjacent meadow (after a while pasted attempting to skip stones across the water. Iain actually it a couple of times! I, on the other hand, did not.).
We spent an afternoon on our friend's little farm, helping with the harvest and came home with a big box full of red and green cabbages, crooked neck squash, sun gold tomatoes (oh, so sweet!) and sun jewel melons (an exotic Chinese melon with an intoxicating scent). At times I got the distinct feeling that I was literally packing up summer...stowing it away in a box somewhere until some later date, when it will be dug back out again.
I made the most fabulous pesto ever, using a combination of the freshest of fresh basil, almonds, sesames, sunflower seeds, and golden flax seeds (and olive oil and garlic and my precious maldon sea salt, of course...). We ate it in obscene quantities, over rice noodles, with lots of cherry tomatoes on top.
And all the while Steve and B the Builder, worked and worked and worked away at the house. And I clicked and clicked away with my camera. Thus, I have a long weekend in pictures and the entire second floor framed in.
We went swimming at our favorite spot and when that quickly proved too cold, we played hide and seek in an adjacent meadow (after a while pasted attempting to skip stones across the water. Iain actually it a couple of times! I, on the other hand, did not.).
We spent an afternoon on our friend's little farm, helping with the harvest and came home with a big box full of red and green cabbages, crooked neck squash, sun gold tomatoes (oh, so sweet!) and sun jewel melons (an exotic Chinese melon with an intoxicating scent). At times I got the distinct feeling that I was literally packing up summer...stowing it away in a box somewhere until some later date, when it will be dug back out again.
I made the most fabulous pesto ever, using a combination of the freshest of fresh basil, almonds, sesames, sunflower seeds, and golden flax seeds (and olive oil and garlic and my precious maldon sea salt, of course...). We ate it in obscene quantities, over rice noodles, with lots of cherry tomatoes on top.
And all the while Steve and B the Builder, worked and worked and worked away at the house. And I clicked and clicked away with my camera. Thus, I have a long weekend in pictures and the entire second floor framed in.
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