Friday Phone Unload

View from Bike Commute

Mirror Lake in Mt Hood

Pumpkin Carving with Monty

Mulled Wine

Yes Please

Summer ending

Pumpkin: Growing

Corn

Giant Sunflower

A couple of quick shots from the last month or so. After batches and batches of roasted tomato soup, oven dried tomatoes,  and summer squash soup the garden is finally starting to slow down. We don't have frost in the forecast for the next few days so we still have time to squeeze the most out of our little fertile plot. I have been busy trying to save all of our bounty for use later in the white winter. I have untold amounts of fruit and tomatoes frozen in our freezer, and just finished putting up a half dozen pints of tomato sauce, a half dozen half-pints of Tomato Confit, and another half dozen half-pints of plum and star anise jam. Up next: 35 lbs of apples will be transformed into apple butter. It is feeling rather fall like now...

Canning