August 14,2008
Changes
I just wanted to send a picture of what my garden has become. It is changing and signaling the impending equinox. As hot as it still is, if you listen and smell and look, you can realize the summer season is beginning to relinquish its’ post and the cool breezes of autumn will be here soon to take its place. My garden is a tousle of vines reaching for the sun and zinnias drying out and dropping seed and basils and oreganos going to seed. The garden is one of my favorite places to be, but I have to admit to weariness by late summer. I have let my okra get tough on the stalk and I haven’t had a small bouquet of zinnias on my kitchen cabinet since July and I am allowing my hens to consume the rest of my tomato crop. All I care about are my bell peppers. I am waiting for them to turn yellow and orange and red. I do not buy any bell peppers during the year (they are heavily sprayed), so I have to depend on my summer crop for twelve months of cooking. It is so easy to chop and freeze peppers and I feel so good about using them when it is the middle of winter and I can pull out a handful of summer from my freezer.
Till next time,
p.s.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
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