it is a beautiful day here and tomorrow is supposed to be nice too, but they may be the last beautiful days for a while. and these? these are what didn't entirely ripen this year because it was such a late spring and cool start to the summer, so in turn, the tomatoes were late too. i didn't reap nearly this many ripe fruit, but i will put some of the more colorful ones on the window sill to continue to ripen, and i might make some kind of green tomato somethings with the others. has anyone pickled the tiny little green ones? was it worth it? did they even taste good? it could all end up compost but that is ok with me. the fact that three plants grew so well, and finally produced was good enough for me. and, it has me inspired to plant more next year - and then some...
these little red ones i was quite excited to find... didn't have more than a couple that ripened so i am thrilled to eat these two in the next few minutes. i can't remember the variety, chocolate something or other... the tag is outside, but i am inside now and doubt that i am going to outside again in the next little while....
this here is the plant matter i cut down today... three little plants in june. i am, from here on out, quite in love with tomato farming.
{this is my second post with photos using typepad's new and 'improved' platform. i have changed the picture size but it is impossible to tell in the preview what that really is... i found that out last post as they were all to be the same size and well... you can see they are not. so, more fussing is probably in my future. hang tight}
{ok, the photos are huge, but i might like that, so will stick with it for a while and see... but, does it mean it takes forever to load on your end?}
22 October 2008
dear typepad....
you've changed and i don't feel any love for you right now. if you don't shape up we are going to have to part ways. that makes me really mad and frustrated, so i suggest you shape up.
consider yourself on notice.
-s
road trip!!!
when returning from lopez last month i took the back roads home. i love the back roads. they are so pretty, rural and make me feel so content with the world. especially on a sunny autumn day. i thought my friend paul would like to get out of town and look for a pumpkin patch so we tentatively decided that if is was sunny on our day off we would go.
it was sunny.
and we went.
for 350 miles.
a whole lot farther than i had intended but it was necessary because we went east over the mountains and then into the agricultural part of the state and then, to get home, we had to head some distance south and come back over the mountains again.
we started out at the maltby cafe for breakfast, and a little walk around the grounds there.... where i saw something that i might have to go back for, something that will take some reconditioning but will make everyone super, duper green with envy and something that i will have in my ever expanding collection of stuff but probably will never use... we will see. i can't show you, because i didn't take a picture, because, i am not so much the photojournalist i should be as blog owner - and sometimes poster.
this is what we came to first... snow! it was beginning to melt in the sun so it was dripping and plopping from the branches and sounded so peaceful - when i got far enough away from the still running car and stopped talking and looked away from the highway and the ski resort right there in the middle of things. still, it was quite wonderful.
this is the wenatchee river. the highway follows it as it runs east down from the mountains. i love the drive because around the turns the river comes into and out of view as you roll along, always with a peek at the running waters. we had to stop here because i couldn't take it any longer just spying it from the car.
this is for julie.... except for the beer can - that escaped my notice until just now. this isn't so far off the beaten track that all kinds of garbage wasn't strewn about.
people.
this was real pretty too... we didn't see any four legged animals on the drive but here it would have been lovely to have a deer walk up and lap at the water's edge.
this is paul, humoring me. i humored myself by not getting in front of the camera.
i did have to take some pictures of the rocks and the water.... and i took
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