After a summer of buzzing comes the tasting! The palest honey we think has come from the apple blossom in the orchard and the darker coloured honey from when the clover fields were in flower. Mmmm, delicious.
Dry warm weather today and a chance to do a bit of work in the garden, mostly cutting back and pulling up the many weeds that have rampaged whilst I've been inside sheltering from the rain.(Wet weather coming in tomorrow and for the rest of the week!) Some plants, such as the perennial sweet pea, here threatening to take over the arbour, have loved the wet. Others, like my squash plants, have hated it and not performed well at all. If I'm to eat squash this winter I'll have to go to the shop and buy it - what a disgrace.
There is a feel of autumn in the air.
The crab apples are falling and Maisie keeps guard, the blackbirds aren't going to get them on her watch. Not that she intends eating them herself, of course!
The jars came as gifts from 'Sweet Pete' and his daughter. How happy are we!
Dry warm weather today and a chance to do a bit of work in the garden, mostly cutting back and pulling up the many weeds that have rampaged whilst I've been inside sheltering from the rain.(Wet weather coming in tomorrow and for the rest of the week!) Some plants, such as the perennial sweet pea, here threatening to take over the arbour, have loved the wet. Others, like my squash plants, have hated it and not performed well at all. If I'm to eat squash this winter I'll have to go to the shop and buy it - what a disgrace. 
There is a feel of autumn in the air.
The crab apples are falling and Maisie keeps guard, the blackbirds aren't going to get them on her watch. Not that she intends eating them herself, of course!
August, the beginning of summer's end. It is the sweetest time of the year.
ReplyDeletegorgeousness as always. i can't believe how much rain you get. lucky. we are parched here. a friend just gave me a conserve of honey and kumquats. it is such an amazing flavor. i want to learn to make it. your honey would be perfect!
ReplyDeleteDear Staring Over, Yes, I too love the gentle ending of summer - but only when we have actually had a summer to enjoy. Not much evidence of one this year!
ReplyDeleteDear Janet, Parched isn't good for gardens, I know, but for my well-being, before winter comes, how I would love a bit of parched!
So, you are the girl who thought she had little to say and might give up blogging!! A large following world-wide, and I'm not the least bit surprised!
Wonderful stuff! Glad to have stumbled across your blog.
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Welcome! And what a great name, Bertie Bainbridge. Does this mean that you have North Yorkshire origins? Lovely photographs on your blog and what a place to work - how lucky are you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rosemary! Yes, on my father's side we have roots in Yorkshire. I'm quite interested to know the variety of Aster(?) flowering in the second photograph from the bottom, what a beautiful bloom!
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