evening

stroll by the river
and eggs benedict for dinner

tried to copy what I ate at J'eet last weekend:

hollandaise sauce (used Mark Bittman's recipe)

poached eggs

steamed baby spinach and oven dried tomatoes (from last year's harvest)

all piled on top of a toasted kaiser roll

for M and C's baby

Sugar N' Cream cotton yarn in yellow with sailboat buttons

Pattern: Baby Sandals from The Knitter's Year by Debbie Bliss

now harvesting

lettuce, garlic, peas, apricots and carrots (picked the carrots early to thin out the patch).

this and that

the zinnias are kind of showing off this year

carrots!

lily -- these blooms are huge!

lantana

echinacea gets a visit from a pollinator

apricot deliciousness!

We got an apricot tree last spring, knowing how many dried apricots we buy in bulk at the co-op for snacking and to mix into our granola.

We planned on drying out our own homegrown apricots; well, this was our plan until last night.

Yesterday, David picked the first ripe apricot and it had such a delicate flavor, it was juicy and delicious! Kind of like a peach, but milder in flavor, not as stringy and smaller - of course.

Now I'm wondering if we'll have any apricots left to dry...I may be eating all of the fresh fruit instead. :)

7.4.11

just how tall is that sunflower?!?

the apricots are almost ripe! It looks like a bug may be munching on the leaves.

and not a bad haul for the first year of our raspberry bushes.

last weekend of june in the garden

front of the garden; to see notes on this photo, click here.

milkweed (butterfly weed)

columbine in dark purple

milkweed in pink; this plant is about 4' tall

These Boots Were Made For Plantin'? They didn't fit, so I repurposed them.

what is it about the first gigantic bloom of a sunflower each summer?

lots of volunteer dill everywhere...this one just happened to have a little visitor.

chicory...you know that weed that you see along roads; well, I think it is beautiful. We've also heard that grinding up and roasting up the root makes a good coffee substitute. Has anyone tried this before?

apricot!