Breakfast

 

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What's blooming 10/7/17

 Geraniums (above).

Rose budding and blooming continually. 

 Hollyhocks slowing down.

 Feverfew pops up wherever.

A herb recommended for headaches.

 Dahlias were gifts.  Wintered over in basement year after year.

 Borage, a herb with edible blossoms.  Attracts bees.

Nasturum, also edible - flowers, leaves, roots.  Peppery flavor.

Also keeps insects away.  Self seeds year after year.

Hydrangea. 

Aeronaut squash foliage and fruit.

Most likely will not mature fully.

Will cook, mash, and use in pumpkin bread.

 Maximillum sunflower about through for the season.

Burning Bush turning redder each day.

Late blooming mums.  Thank you Jeanne G. 

Hibiscus seedpods will be shared. 

Milkweed seeds will soon scatter in the breeze.

 

Always happy to see the honey bees!

Thank you, Ruby, for these Montauk Daisies.

Cleanup

CLEANUP

Colored leaves in sight.

Frost forecasted tonight.

Time to cleanup the garden

in preparation for autumn.

More fun to don on a sunny day

while listening to the blue jays.

A big basket of fresh green beans

is harvested under the sunbeams.

Tomorrow a stir-fry will be made

with a yummy ginger marinade.

Others will be blanched and frozen.

Will taste good when the snow is blowing.

There are shell beans to be podded one night

to cook for homemade soup some cold night.

There's onions and tomatoes to add

and carrots and zucchini, I'm glad,

to make minestrone later

for a tasty simple supper.

Peppers are taken in

to be chopped and frozen

for meat sauce this winter.

Better than a diners.

These plants will be covered tonight

for there are baby peppers in sight.

Fresh parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme

are cut to make bouquets today when time.

They'll be used to make herbed turkey stock

from turkey bones simmering in a pot

with onions, celery, and carrots

for a base for turkey soups. Can't wait.

The wheelbarrow and I

strain with winter squash piled high.

Can't wait to eat.

They'll be a treat.

I'll wait two weeks for the squash to cure

then will bake in the oven for supper.

Carrots, cabbage, and beets

are said to be more sweet

when left out in the cold

or so the saying goes.

Besides I've run out of room

to store my gardening boom.

* * * * *

Do you thank God for your daily bread

and for the other food which you are fed?

Our food is a gift from God, you know,

designed to make us strong and help us grow.

Have you thought to thank God for the variety

of foods available every day when you pray?

Not just the colors but the textures and flavors -

sweet, tart, creamy, crunchy – made for us to savor.

Vitamins, minerals, fiber inclusive

designed for us to be healthy and live.

God knows just what we need every day.

Thank Him now as you bow your head and pray.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:11 (KJV)

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Luke 11:3 (KJV)

 

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What's Blooming Oct 1st

 Montauk Daisy (thank you Ruby)

 Hydrangea

 Rudbeckia

 Hollyhocks (thank you Jean)

 Feverfew

 

 Autumn Joy Sedum (thank you mom)

 Perennial Sunflower (thank you Kelly)

 Zinnia

 

Clara Curtis mum (thank you Debbie)

 Mums

 Last Rose of Summer

 Gram's Red Rosebud Geranium

 Dahlia (thank you George and Helen)

 Borage

 Brown-eyed Susan with Rose Campion

Nasturium

 

I see skies of blue

and pretty flowers too

and I think to myself...

what a wonderful world!

 

 Many migration butterflies today.  A joy to see.