Recently:
Sight: The big, bold new graffiti mural around the corner.
Touch: Dirt! (late start to gardening)
Taste: Tomato and pepper bruschetta with pineapple and avocado salad. Yum!
Hearing: Elbowed my way in and picked up a really old Emmy Lou Harris album at a local record fair.
Scent: The amazing lilacs warranted their own post.
I love that our garden contains old and established plants that surprise me every year. This is true of the chives. I don’t even water them in the summer, didn’t put any mulch around them before the winter and yet they continue not only to return, but to take over more and more real estate. I put them in everything: scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, biscuits. Although, I think I might have too much for even me this year. I’m in need of an Overgrown Plant Exchange. Any takers?
I feel like these are the grown-up version of the tree-house I always wanted.
And there is an awfully large, low brach on the tree in the backyard – wouldn’t these pods be the perfect reading/nap nook?
However, I did notice the photos on the website don’t actually show how you would get into them. Rope-ladder accessible to only those with the secret code perhaps…
Found via Black Eiffel.
I didn’t plan this, but isn’t nice when something works out?
I love Chinese Lanterns. They stay fresh for quite a while and are such a great colour. I first learned about them from my sister, who discovered them in the neighbourhood and insisted I come along to look at this plant (I imagine that neighbour was quite perplexed to see the two of us and her dog in deep discussion while pointing at her garden). I saw them at the market, bobbing out of many baskets and bags until I finally cornered someone and asked “where did you get those?” I am definitely going to plant some next spring.
I picked the last of the carrots this weekend. It was a big carrot bouquet and they smelled so great. Now I am craving carrot-cake, maybe with creme-cheese icing. Yes. The garden looks sad and straggly now. I discovered some left-over green beans on the vine that had shrivelled up outside – I forgot about them! I’m wondering about planting garlic, but also if I’ve left it too late…
Summer is for dancing under fairy lights – wine in hand – to Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Image source.
I was introduced to Halloumi earlier this summer by my friend Maddy, (queen of all things fabulous) and now I am hooked. I made a huge dinner of roast veg: beans and spicy oregano from the garden, coloured tomatoes and sweet peppers from the market, potatoes, zucchini – it’s a great dish for clearing out the fridge, and especially good with big glasses of red wine . Delicious!
This is it: the one Dahlia that’s blooming. You can see there are little buds just about to open up, but they’ve been like that for a week now. Everyday I go out and check them, but apparently, my nagging has yet to be effective.
I suffered a few ant bites during my mini harvest, but I think they’re worth it.
