Saturday, June 13, 2009

Start of Summer

Many years ago, my husband and I had an incredible garden. I put up over 100 jars of preserves from things that we either grew or tended on our property. When I see old photos of the garden, I'm impressed with how much we had.

Then a couple of years ago, one of my daughters hit a rough spot, and once again we grew a garden. Small but productive, we felt purposeful about it, and proud of our efforts.

This year on a whim, my husband and I planted squash, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs. With all the rain we've had, the garden is going wild. Last night we had our first meal from what we've grown: stir-fried squash and pasta with pesto. Add peaches from Candor (thank God those poor peach farmers are having a great year), and it was a delicious meal.



Today we rode around Southport trying to get to know the streets and shops. Nice night, nice morning.





3 comments:

trisha said...

Yum, the tastes of summer. Love seeing what's cooking in Mamie's kitchen.

You know how I feel about Southport. Did you take your photos?

Mamie said...

Do you mean did I take my cards to Southport? Or did I take the photos on the blog? No to the first question, yes to the second!!

See you this week - yes!

Lisa Lewis said...

I remember your big garden , mmm, your squash looks good.