a glimpse of early red along yesterday's morning walk
we love red
Spent yesterday afternoon away from this old brick house which felt lovely. A break from the everydayness, from the sameness. The trials of being self employed and there are trials (along with all that independence & freedom goodness) - your home is your work place and your workplace is your home - they eventually just meld into one.
Away in a nearby town for an apt. and shopping with a good friend. We stopped at the market for plums, pears, tomatoes and peppers, I'll make Fruit Chili Sauce this weekend - the absolute best condiment I've ever had. And we're having a little burst of summer like weather this week with lots of sunshine, blue skies and unseasonably warm temperatures ...
it feels like I'm hanging onto summer this year.
That's because we know that winter will be with us a good long while. :) Glad you got out and away - it charges your batteries. :)
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOO!!! It's still summer, I'm gluing the leaves back on the trees. You can't make me give up summer yet.
ReplyDeleteThat's what makes September so special - these occasional days of summer revisited, but with a beautiful early autumn light. I'm glad you got away - you were beginning to sound like you needed a break!
ReplyDeletePlease, pray tell, what do you use such a decadent sauce on? With all that chopping it will truly be a labor of love to prepare and put up...I am wondering if I DARE attempt it...now I am sad that I am NOT your neighbor who can just pop over and "borrow" a cup!
ReplyDeleteIt's really more of a fruity tomato relish. A little spicy and is delicious on hamburgers, hotdogs, grilled cheese sandwiches ... anything you would think to use a relish. I add raisins, oranges zest and freshly grated ginger to mine. I can't explain it ... but I could eat it straight from the jar it's that good and thus well worth all that peeling and chopping.
ReplyDeleteYou just need to be listening to some good radio and to put yourself in a wee chopping trance. Promise if you do make it you'll be happy you did.
we love red too. i like hot and sweet. ive been making peach salsa. with peaches i bought and the peppers (the very last of them thanks to rain) from my garden.
ReplyDeleteSo funny. I just commented on another blog how much in love with red I am this season. Welcome autumn! Edward, Apple and I are off for an alfresco lunch at a village cafe!
ReplyDeleteSusan, it is absolutely amazing out here for the time of year....so warm, such a brilliant blue sky..not a cloud.... supposed to be up to +31 tomorrow...the old guys will be sweating...... in more ways than one I hope, because I have been practising with my new driver....Greg says I should be able to whip some wrinkly old ass..hahahha...how rude of him. My own isn't so far off the wrinkly stage, I'm sure.... lol...good thing his eyes are going....
ReplyDeleteOh the sauce sounds devine! I think you are able to appreciate summer because you eventually loose it for a couple of months. I have no appreciation of summer because I live with it year round and I am heat intolerant. Ours are humid and relentless, along with mosquitos. Summer is not loved here. We yearn for those days that are cool, when the mosquitos go away for a couple of weeks and we can walk outside without incesant heat.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any good recipies for a killer hot chocolate? We like to crank up the A/C and pretend.
Do hope you'll post the recipe for your fruit chili sauce...sounds interesting. Enjoy the sunshine!
ReplyDeleteLove your photos.