GREEN PEPPER, HOMEGROWN!

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This 7x5 acrylic painting is of a 3" pepper from my garden. The first one picked!

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Last Day of Summer - Last HooRa!

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Went to Hampton Beach, NH, for our last day before school starts. Laura brought her best friend and Meredith got two temporary henna tattoos!

Water was wonderful, as you can see Laura thoroughly enjoying the waves. Look at how clear and green the water is. It was late in the morning and the tide was coming in; you can see how far the shallow part had grown, by the time we got there.

Meredith was content with just hangin' on the beach and being camera shy.

This is a picture of Hampton Beach, half way between. Sort of like the Seaside Heights, the shore where I went when I was young. However, there's no amusement rides at one end, and not as many carnival style games of chance.

Here's a shot of Hampton Beach, from the beach.

This was a weekday, so the beach isn't busy, but holidays and weekends it can be really tight quarters. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of coast line in NH. We do have a TON of lakes and mountains to climb... best time of year's coming for climbing, caverns and mining!

Finally a Good Show!

Well, finally the Morning Glory are bursting at the seams!!! Unfortunately, the flowering side (facing south) is the side which faces the house. The side that faces the road has hardly (if not no) flowers on that side. Just looks like a big green blob to the passer-byers.

In the second picture, you can see the cool flower, fully bloomin'! The plant's very similar to an iris in that one flower opens at a time.

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Cool Plant

Year before last, I saw this plant in front of a store and thought it was the strangest looking thing. Then I saw it again this year, when driving the girls to Maine for camp. Then about a month ago, I saw and bought the plant; it didn't have a tag on it, so I don't know what it is called. I am sure I'll find out, eventually.

Here you can it's starting to bloom!

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Sadly The Summer's Winding Down

But the gardens suer are not!!!

The image just below is the big arch I have in the backyard. It's covered with two different types of Morning Glory; pink and blue. You can see the blue, in the photo below the arch's picture.

The next two photos are of the Four O'Clocks which are growing at the base of the big arch (also in the large garden, in the front). These cool flowers are both multi-colored and solid. The picture of the white flowers started off all white, but eventually I started seeing flowers that had colors from the other two plants, next to it; the pink and the yellow (also both also started off solid).

In this photo, you can see how the Morning Glory is growing up the lattice.

And this is the FIRST pepper of the season. Do you see a future painting here? I thinkin' I do! :)

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Ummmm, Homemade Sauce A-Simmerin'!

Well, as expected... the tomatoes are all ripening at once! So, it's time for some homemade tomato sauce.

This is about 5 tomatoes and after 3 hours of a good simmer. I cheated and added a small can of generic tomato sauce because 7 tomatoes wouldn't make anything, much. To this batch, I plan on adding more boiled down tomatoes as they ripen. Even with salads, open-face tomato melts and sandwiches, making a sauce is the only final way to consume these. Even friends have had a couple forced their way! :)

Aaaah, with all the fresh stuff included, the kitchen smells of such good stuff. Once the chunks of fresh garden cook down tomato (par-boiled to peal the skins), the chunks literally POP in your mouth, along with the garlic, and onion... celery... oh I love this time of year.

Cooking is such good therapy for the soul, huh? Even without a garden, this sauce will be good when all the ingredients are fresh from the local farmers....