Down from the mountains

A beautiful stay at the Lake.  Yesterday morning while we walked the dogs we spotted a bear cub, and then another. They froze. Then the mama bear appeared and the two cubs scooted over to her. Mama bear looked like she wanted to climb the tree they were by for a short while; she was hugging it and the cubs were peaking over our way.  She decided to skeedadle and off the lumbered.  Beautiful...a little scary but they were not super close...just beautiful.

Here's pics from this late morning just before we left.

 

September is almost gone!

That fast and September is almost gone.  Too many things on my plate and the days slip by and it is now autumn. Wow.

I harvested my Galeus d'Eysines a few days after my last post.  Look at these beauties!

The 4 plants had about 12 tiny pumpkinettes to begin with but inconsistent watering and not the richest of soils caused the pumpkinetes to drop. Still and all, it is said this is delicious squash.  I am actually glad we don't have 12 that many pounds is probably more than we will want to eat. Stay tuned for the taste test later in the autumn.

I have begun to harvest the Italian green beans.  I love them more than Kentucky Wonder type green beans.  Tonight I toasted almond slivers in brown butter and with tossed blanched beans, salt & pepper and chives.  Yum!

We are up at the cabin at Lake Tahoe. I brought the following from the garden: chives, garlic, rosemary, basil, Italian green beans, turnips, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes and figs. I also brought Comice pears and Jonagold apples a friend grew.

These pics are from the restaurant where we had lunch.  It is perfect weather this week.

This weekend I begin with soil amendments and some fall planting.  Looking forward to it while loving this down time at the lake.

Harvesting Yellow Perfections

I grew one yellow tomato plant, Yellow Perfection, this year. It grew really well and gave us lots of 2 to 2 1/2 inch fruit.  To bad it turns out I don't really like yellow tomatoes.  I miss the acid of the reds. I have given most of them away, which of course is a really great gift for friends. Well, that is unless like me, my friends are not fond of them but no one is saying!

So today I harvested the whole plant. I'm going to have to make something tomorrow with both the ripe and the unripe.  It was a prolific plant.

And what would a summertime post be without an update on the Galeaux d'eysines.  I keep wondering whether it tis time to remove them from the vine. I have five of these.  This is the one I have posted since the beginning. It is also the most salmon colored.

It's a beauty!