Harvest...

I love Fridays. A clean house, grocery shop completed with a non-tantruming three year old, a quiet lunch and an afternoon harvesting a sizeable bounty from our garden.

 

 

 

 

Such a lovely feeling gathering up big bunches of herbs, filling baskets with apples & pears, digging up potatoes & onions and cutting armfuls of rhubarb while the kids race around the backyard with several blow-ins from the neighborhood. Even better when that bounty is bubbling away in pots on the stove or being spooned into jars to give to friends.

 

Yesterday's efforts were:

 

Basil & Cashew Pesto.

Rhubarb & Raspberry Jam.

Boeuf Bourguignon.

 

 

 

 

Today I'm trying my hand at:

 

Crabapple Jelly

Apple Chutney

Pears in Port

 

With this spot of cooler weather spending weekends in the kitchen is a joy.

 

 

 

 

Have a gorgeous weekend!

xx Em

 

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Soul Satisfying Beautiful

 

We escaped to Lanyon today.

Wrapped in layers, revelling in the chilled air.

A temporary hiatus from Summer.

 

 

 

 

Rock plonking by the river's edge, occasional car rumbling high above our heads across a narrow bridge. Wind through towering poplars. Sun on rippled water. Clouds cruising across cornflower blue skies.

 

 

 

 

Drinking in the summer colour of the homestead garden.

The promise of a long awaited Autumn hinted in amongst the foliage.

 

 

 

Farm.

 

 

 

 

Time to wander, to taste, to breathe in.

 

 

 

 

Little boys and blackberry hedgerows. Lingering for just one more sun-sweetened treat. Stained fingers, ruby lips, contented grin.

 

 

 

 

Shape, texture, colour, scent. Drink it in, a sensory feast.

 

 

 

 

Sulphur crested cockatoos take raucous flight.

 

 

 

 

Time to sit, no need to think.

 

 

 

 

Generations of stories, captured. Time stood still.

 

 

 

 

Immersed in soul satisfying beautiful.

 

 

xx Em

 

 

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