Tomato Harvest

Here are the Big Boy tomatoes, and they finally ripened!  I wasn't sure the weather would hold long enough to get them to this size and color.  They are truly beautiful, and they have the sweetest taste.  They will be great for making salsa and marinara sauce.

Plum Pie

Plum pies are an old delicacy, and one that I can remember from my own childhood. They are also part of the English tradition, where plums are plentiful and used for pies and puddings.

Here's a pie made only from our own Italian Plums.  I've provided both a 'before' and 'after' picture!  Yum!

The Last of the Roses

Here are two Julia Child yellow roses and one Adobe Sunrise happily co-existing in a vase at home.  They are the last of many lovely blooms I had over the long summer days. 

With this justaposition, I imagine Julia presiding over a custom kitchen in a rental house in Arizona 30 years ago, cooking her French cuisine and filling the early morning desert air with delectable aromas.

Seabrook Autumn Sunsets

With this lingering warm and dry weather in Washingon State, there are lovely and brilliant sunsets along the Washington coast.  Here is a shot of the sunset as seen from Seabrook, WA on Tuesday evening.  Beautiful!

The Slow Life Just Got Better!

My new Canon digital camera arrived today, and the intent was to improve the quality of my blog photos.  Once I learn how to use it effectively, you should see a great improvement in my Slow Life "Kodak Moments"!

The Nose of a Dog

Did you know that a dog has over 200 million olfactories?  I had to get this shot of Nala's nose so I can ponder such a number.  It's mind boggling!

Waning Summer Flowers

Here is my lovely fuschia and begonia basket, which I moved from the back pasture (shade) to this location in the front yard at the arbor gate.  It gets some filtered sunlight in this location, and I'm hoping to keep this basket intact as long as possible.  It will eventually get moved to the greenhouse, where I will try to 'over-winter' it and see if it can survive.

It started out as a small basket, and I was amazed at the growth of the fuschia.