Category Archives: canning

Tomato Season

We had our first really hard frost last night, and considering the date, that’s pretty generous of Mother Nature.  Her other recent gift was the fabulous tomato crop we had this year, the last of the fresh ones going into a batch of cabbage rolls for supper last night. 
Time and the seasons march on, changes are guaranteed to happen. I guess our job is to rise to each occasion.  

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Summer Kitchen

It’s so great to have a garden again, after several years without.  There’s something about being out in my bare feet amongst the vegetables.  This has been a fantastic tomato and pepper year, and this week I started canning both. The result was a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.  Anybody for pickled peppers?   

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Marigold

This is all you get for today…..I’ve been home so little for the past 2 weeks that today was catch-up day!! I cleaned this house from top to bottom, taught an art class, did laundry, mowed the lawn and made pickles.  Amidst all of that I attempted a new approach to painting flowers…a more one-stroke calligraphic method.  I did one with several flowers in it as well, but it was even worse than this!! 

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A Nod to Summer

Big doings in the family this weekend, and I’m enjoying the festivities, so no painting today.  Instead, a photo…A Nod to Summer, because today there’s a change in the wind, and it has the nip of fall. This is one of the photos from pickling day and here’s my wonky little sunflower (the yellow one) from a blog painting a few days ago.  There’s so much difference between a painting and a photograph, and each has it’s charms. 

Happy weekend all!

Flowers & Pickles

 If you grew up in a rural environment and in my generation, then you know what August was all about! We would can and freeze, butcher,  harvest and pickle every garden and farm product we had on the place! Amongst all that we’d be making meals for our sizable family plus the haying crew or the combiners, depending on the year, along with whoever else showed up.  By the end of those summer days (some times around midnight) we’d  swear we never wanted to cook another meal, or wash another dish!
 No wonder I can’t let summer go by without making a few pickles at the very least. I did a dozen jars of dills last evening,(I was finished long before midnight) and this was the still life I “found” on my cupboard this morning.  

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Zinnias

Zinnias have always made me smile.  They’re such upright and upstanding citzens; so strong and cheery and optimistic.  The blooms last for a long time in the garden, and when I cut them & bring them into the house, they continue to radiate that cheeriness for days on end.  Since they’re usually at their best around  late August, I often have a vase of them on the counter when I’m canning my pickles, and have done several still lifes over the years, feathuring that zany combo. Yep, I ‘ve decided that for my summer to be complete, zinnias are a must!

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Tomato Canning Day

Time for a “Still Life” on my blog. 

I love canning & picking, and here’s a sample of August at my house.  Lucky me to live in the heat and sunshine capital of Canada!  The rooster is a family heirloom from the LaCoste Family kitchen in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and will be passed on to my son whenever he’s ready to set up permanent digs.SOLD