A Few Happy Things!

Heirloom tomatoes from the Redlands Farmers Market - used in this salad for Kristi and Ryan's wedding shower!

 Picking blackberries with my Mom!

And with Barry!

Making blackberry pie with said berries! :)

The new flowers in front of the house!  They bring such cheer :)

Simon approves

Friendly herbs

Visits from hummingbirds - there are so many down here in SoCal!

Autumn Abundance

I know that it's winter for many of you, but it's still Autumn here in SoCal.  We have been super than excited to pick our first few tomatoes from our garden.  For those that have hear our gardening woes, you will understand how awesome this is for us!  And for those who haven't, yes - we should have had tomatoes long ago.  But we are just now getting them and for that, we are very thankful!  The other fruits include persimmons and either tangerines, clementines, or tangelos (we can't figure out which they are!)

On friday, I turned 20 pounds of this....

...into four loaves of this!  We're enjoying it immensely!

Purple Bounty

Neat finds

1. Wow...


2. Eagle Mom and Dad with their three eaglets!


3. This awesome wooden puzzle:

4. Beautiful wooden plates!

5. This Radiolab on the topic of music

6. An interesting blog about gardening and DIY.  Check out these two posts:

Heirloom Plants

DIY Philosophy

Oh!  And one more... You've got to check out this adorable, beautiful, priceless book.  Barry and I are going to be just like that when we are 90! :) :)

Bob and Rose by Millicent Harvey | Make Your Own Book

Enjoy!