Muffins

In honor of the unseasonably cool mornings, baking pumpkin, cranberry, pepito, ginger muffins this morning, yum!  Art group on hiatus today, working on icon for Spectrum, bordering holiday quilt, picking up farm share, lunch with a friend, ahhh. 

From the back yard

Notations

...from the drumming circle

Quiet Sunday

Paper read, family abed, cat sleeping, street quiet, ahhhh.

Fresh peaches

The trees are bending under their fruit and it is delicious, delightful with strawberries and yogurt on waffles for breakfast, yum!

Fun

Shadow dancing

Who knew, that could be so fun, Spectrum continues to pull and stretch and inspire me daily.

Boldly go

So many ideas

Ecstatic postures, anthropological explanations of ritual, laser inertial fusion energy, the doves calling in the morning, so many ideas, so many ways of seeing and expressing the all.

Better

Hopefully everyone is on the mend.  Warming up again, but still a fairly mild summer for us.  A nice drive through the countryside today, seeing the vineyards, corn and soy fields doing very well.  My youngest is in his new place.

Healing

A virus sickened family members yesterday, but they seem to be on the mend, time will tell.  A lone sunflower unveiled its blossom, all golden and round, the black-eyed Susan's  are close to revealing their colors.  The weather still holds fairly mild for July, a real treat!

Delightful

How delicious to awaken to 55 degree weather in mid-July, oh we are getting spoiled!

Another delightful day

Rare treats for July!  The mimosa is blooming so sweetly, the sunset last night held the same colors, gorgeous.

Such a treat

The weather is in the 70's with low humidity today, amazing for mid-July and so welcome, turn off the air conditioners and open the windows and bask in it!

Fog

Woke up to fog and bird song, a rare treat in mid-July.  A bit cooler and cozier all tucked under a thin gray blanket. A polar plunge due for a day or two, a lovely break.

Stormy weather

We survived another gusty storm, with a few things blowing about again, but retrieved.  More due in later today, it is the season.  Hubs off to NY City tomorrow and more weather up there. 

Laid back Sunday

The hubs is recovering from a pretty good sunburn from yesterday's hard work.  Reading the Sunday paper, studying the camera handbook, planning the organic chili recipe for later today.  Last night was salmon, roasted kohlrabi, braised kale and peppers.  Fresh peaches and french vanilla ice cream for dessert.  The farm shares are a wonderful summer treat!

The heat is back

The super moon was obscured by clouds this morning, but there is a bright glare to the afternoon with the heat in the high 80's.  Hubs has been working outside, while I have been making meals and quilting in.  The yard is more broad leaf plantain than grass, the grapes, keep getting bigger, the rose of sharon shrubs are blooming, the black-eyed susan's are in bud and the sunchokes grow taller and taller.

Fresh new morning

Cool and a bit more refreshing, a lovely morning to be out. 

Big blow

A strong storm blew through last night and knocked a lot of branches down.  A bit of a clean up this morning.  So far nothing major here, but other friends and acquaintances were not quite as lucky, trees downed, vehicles and homes damaged.

Christmas in July

Working on a Christmas quilt that has been in process for a couple of years at least, maybe this year it will be finished!  Working on the 12 log cabin blocks that are part of it, finished the cactus flower blocks. 

7/7/14

It was a hot one today!  Watered the plants first thing and ran errands early, quilted, painted and wrote during the hot part of the day.  Chicken cacciatore, with lots of fresh organic veggies and herbs from the backyard pots, and watermelon for dinner, raspberry ice cream for dessert, yum!

Picnic and boating

A lovely early dinner at the lake, watching all the families and boats, sitting at a table in the shade with a cool breeze and bright sun all around, perfect.

Fireflies and fireworks

Lots of bangs and booms and lights in the sky last evening.  To awaken to a blissfully peaceful, clear, bright, fresh day.  Hooray!

Refreshment

Brunch at the lake with the herons and red-winged blackbirds, red-tailed hawks and vultures.  A bit of bocce competing and then back home for a break before returning again later in the day.

Small break

Four days off to explore, storms and heat to overshadow today. Egg salad sandies and fruit salad for light lunch before picking up this week's organic produce and running some errands amidst the weather.  Painting group on hiatus, but Spectrum, quilting and t'ai chi on tap.

July 2

July 1

                                                       Things are heating up!