kaizen journey

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Last weeks sunflowers are becoming more lovely as they wither.
Beauty transforming.

Decorative Onions

Fading Hydrangea

Featherlike structures. Collected earlier in the summer they have been waiting to be photographed, tonight was their night.

The heat is all summer yet fall colors are just beginning to show here

Free sunflowers at the farmers market yesterday

fields of them

just grab some clippers and carry them home.

Food for the spirit.

Some other things came home with us too,

home baked honey wheat bread, fresh tomatoes and multi colored beans.

The bread and some tomatoes were immediately put to use in grilled cheese sandwiches,

later I tossed the beans with olive oil salt and pepper and roasted them.

They were like candy.

More tomatoes were tossed with pasta, fresh herbs and goat cheese for dinner this evening.

no pictures were taken as it was eaten too fast.

Fresh ripe tomatoes are a wonderful thing.

I've come to cooking late in life. I was uninterested and rather intimidated when I was younger.

Lar cooked nearly all the dinners we ate for the first 5 years we were together.

Now I am the person more likely to try something new.

Always on the lookout for a good vegetarian recipe to try.

I think more tomatoes will find their way into a couscous salad tomorrow.

Many thanks to our friend Chuck Davis who took us up today for a tour of the state in his plane.

We lucked out with gorgeous weather.

I took a few pictures and got to fly the plane for a bit!

(OK I held the controls which was a bit out of my comfort zone)

Mt Hope Bridge

Newport Mansions

Our house and my garden

The highlight was getting to see my gardens from the air!

My computer is cranky, I may have too many photos on it...