Rather than moping over my ruined zoom lens, I'm forcing myself to learn how to take better photos on my phone. It's not as satisfying as my beloved Nikon but I'm enjoying messing around with it and trying to like the results.
This morning, for instance, I hobbled down the hill on my bum knee to visit the chickens (and two guineas) and see what's still growing in the garden. Last weekend we processed dozens of ears of sweet corn for the freezer, but this week the sweet corn patch is pretty much done. The okra suddenly shot up to six feet tall and started making pods, so today we'll fry up a mess of okra for lunch. It looks like we'll have tons more tomatoes and tomatillos and hot peppers, plus three big watermelons and massive pumpkins. Sunflowers, spaghetti squash, a few lingering cucumbers, lovely red beet greens mingling with swiss chard...all very promising, and very pretty.
It's been an odd year for gardening, with the cool, wet spring hampering many early crops--even the zucchini has been disappointing. But this late-summer burst of growth will keep us busy and happy for weeks to come. Though I'm not sure what we'll do with those giant pumpkins. How many pumpkin pies can the two of us eat?
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