Soo-weet Summer

This will be a quick one. Summer is waiting!

Here is my main take-away following the surgeries. Your mental state improves in lurches. Up and down but trending upward. Like recovering from any shock. It's helpful for me to know that.

And it takes awhile to get back into your groove but the faster you can do it the better. 

Of course eating good and real food helps.

John's garlic drying in his specially made racks.

Apples remind us that fall is coming soon.

Slam your eyes shut, vegetarians. I just wanted to show you John's excellent pozole that he makes from corn that he slakes with lime. The kernals get huge and yummy. 

Our friends have a cow (Zippy) that has a new calf so they threw a calf welcoming party.

Mama and baby are doing fine.

Looking toward the pasture. Notice the faboo greenhouse.

Looking up toward the berm house that faces into the southern sky for solar efficiency.

An inviting summer table.

Bruschetta, Blueberry, Bundt, Blackberry. Bee-licious. And wine and ice cream. All the major food groups. 

Those good people again. Don't they look nice? They are.

John's onions. They always remind me of people; monks or something.

A photograph of a large watercolor  I painted in 1974 before many of you were born. The colors are faded from the old film but the day was surely a lot like August 2010. I was going to end with this but just remembered another watercolor I wanted to share; this one is a little one that I still have. 

(Running into the studio to get a shot of it.)

Here it is. It's about 4" on the longest side; I used to paint these little sketches and sell them in mall shows when my kids were still home. In fact the other one was painted around the same time.

Okay folks, that's all I have for you today. Be well now. xo