She brought me tomatoes picked from the pots on our back porch and she said, "Mama... mama i have a snack for you, two for you and two for me."
They were indeed delicious and they were indeed a snack and the fact that they had been picked with such love and admiration for all that is amazing about a tomato added to the taste on this sunset eve, amidst all the chaos that has reigned here as of late. She is the fruit bat of our family, finding berries everywhere and trees offering their ripe orbs into her hands.
The end of summer stirs many emotions, muddling together as the raspberries mingle on the stove top with the sugar waiting for just the right temperature and conditions to allow the pectin to gel. It is a bittersweet feeling as the leaves start to fall and the berries start to fade. Even in all their brilliance upon the vine, the blackberries today warned me of fall... slight mold at the corners communicating the recent rain and humidity that still lingers in the air.
A reminder to harvest now as to savour this moment of summer when the gray returns.
To keep my fingers occupied in quiet opportunities i have taken up finger crocheting again. Creating large scale spiderwebs that cling to the corners of my living room and encourage autumn spiders to build their real webs amongst my rainbow threads. My mornings have been filled with baking projects at the school, zucchini corn muffins with nutmeg, sun butter granola bars with raisins
and pumpkin bread pudding with traces of vanilla and a brown sugar crust.
i am reminding myself to embrace the moment.
i am grateful to have two little people in my life
that remind me to do this constantly.
i think that their energy and creativity may inspire some
water color painting with rainwater tomorrow, or perhaps a walk,
taking the time to jump in every puddle we encounter.
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