flower

butterfly

by Lucy

I do like to put things on t shirts…

tank top front

tank top back

butterfly mug

both in shop…

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about the size of a medium tomato

Was amazed to notice this morning, that one of the tiny melons has swelled into a potentially viable fruit! Back when planting, I did read about the ‘proper’ way to grow melons, cutting them right back and only leaving 2 or 3 fruits for the energy and nutrients to focus upon. But the plant vined all round, with lots of lovely little pea sized melons and was so beautiful that I didn’t have the heart to do that.

melon plant in the porch

still flowering

maybe we will eat melon yet

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cake chocolate brambles

chocolate recipes including chocolate cake. More cake recipes here :D

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sunflower so tall I had to hold the camera up high and click!

setting the above as my desktop (click for bigger image – creative commons so anyone can download)

doing: 5 Tibetans

listening: Gregorian Chant (CD bought on our visit to Pluscarden Abbey a couple of years ago)

reading: The Abundance Book and The Wine of Angels

off to pick almost the last of the blackcurrants for a smoothie

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the four big beds, all made of reclaimed wood and old tiles from the roof

It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we grow, the smaller are our shopping bills, also much more work, but it’s very joyful

So now, my baby bed in detail…

just created

It’s in “the hot place”, a sunbathing area of near tropical climes, the place of the toolbox of lettuce (actually mixed salad leaves this year) with house walls to the North and East, shelter from trees and shrubs all round and refelective light walls too – I think I could probably lay cookies out to bake there on a hot day!

All the beds are layered up thus:

a layer of kitchen compost, should be thicker really but wanted to get this one going

seaweed from the beach, mainly kelp

4 growbags chucked in the top

Having observed the propensity of lettuce to survive even the fiercest winters I have planted winter density seeds in there and also garlic round the edges. There may be something unsightly done with bubble wrap and wire as it gets colder.

and randomly:

blackcurrant and apple pie

oatly less artistically arranged this time… we highly recommend growing blackcurrants – the abundance! the easy jam making! the easy freezing! the gorgeous smoothies… and pies…

and a mother sheep feeding lambs behind barbed wire:

beautiful horns she has

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cliffs and blue sky

more cliffs

rocks and water

beach

rocks and deeper water

limpets

various sea vegetables

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over the pond

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a great abundance of these this year

there will be pie tonight

beautiful shiny juicy

 and there was indeed…

pie

served with oatly

oatly cream

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flame and bubbles

Angel party playing The Transformation Game, a spookily accurate spiritual game devised at Findhorn. Wonderfully light humour pervades it.

Toby thoroughly enjoyed it

Freedom

playing snacking laughing

chocolate buttons, walnut and crisps

bubbles and trees

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loch and tree reflections

Had a lovely day out with friends at Millbuies Country Park

beautiful paths

Iona's pretty foot!

damsel fly

and another

paddling in a stream

little trout

beautiful old tree

 Oddly, I took the photo of the butterfly on a buddliea plant in the post below while waiting to meet up with our friends at a garden centre. They later bought that plant!

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