new gate

tapioca pudding

september rain

in june it was smoke.

 

today it's clouds.

 

and some really good rain.

 

september garden greenies

the garden was beautiful this morning.  lots of interesting greenies popping up here and there.  when i planted i just tossed a mix of seeds out and let them do their thing so it's a bit of an adventure every time i go out there. 

the yardlongs are climbing up with the snow peas now and are starting to blossom---hoping to get a few beans before the weather cools too much.

don't know what kind of moth this is but the color and pattern on the wings is amazing...

the bush beans are starting to produce 

got a good mix of greens going

pac choi

mizuna

basil and carrots

i sowed clover in all the beds to help hold water in and fix nitrogen in the soil.  when it starts getting too heavy i thin it out while i'm picking greens for the kitchen.  we get a nice variety of greens, herbs, peas and beans...

and the chickens get the clover and weeds

one thing

i know only one thing
i love him
everything else is beyond me

burning

the west is on fire
through ashen haze,
amber light intensifies late-summer's melancholy for fall,
suffuses yellow grass and rusty road-cut
buckeyes,
long ago surrendered to heat,
dessicated copper leaves cling to bony branches
hot, heavy air,
infused,
with resinous musk,
oak bark,
salty skin
flames rage somewhere,
distant
somewhere within
first moth,
then candle
burning bright
united in love's eternal fire
mountains offer themselves to ravage,
and are reborn

some birthday pictures

pork steak and blueberry pancakes

birthday boy

view from buckingham mountain

homemade cheesecake