~Lucy Mae~

Miss Lucy Mae all grown up.....

~ Oh, Autumn ~

How I love thee....

Autumn is truly my favorite season.

Though living where I live now, I am afraid that my heart misses the usual signs.

Living in the land of no trees, I truly do miss the changing of the leaves.

Not only that, even though I am thankful for the produce, I have been inside putting up peaches, pears, tomatoes, day after day for a week now.

Of course, in between our bean harvest and sugar beet harvest.

All I really want to do is slip on my cozy sweater and Frye boots....

Take a stroll down this road...

Have a bit of lunch and warm apple cider at this spot...

I am usually quite content with my life, folks, but this time of the year, I do long for another place...a place with trees and where things are slowing down, not this place where the only sign of fall is my brown lawn and the absence of the husband from dawn to dusk....I long for the land of autumn....

A Peachy Day

"What the Sam Heck was I thinking not bringing my camera"

I muttered to myself as I looked up at this beautiful site before me.

I guess my poor followers will simply have to bear with a wordy description of this beauty,like my lousy photography skills would capture it anyway.

The site I was and am speaking of, was how I was reaching up into a canopy of peaches covered in rain drops with a ominous sky above.

It was stunning.

Yes, its peach season and (long blissful sigh inserted here) its about time.

To say that I love peaches, really would be a definite understatement.

They are the bomb, folks.

Heaven smells like peaches, and homemade bread....and coffee....and my Grandmas Raviolis...(okay, so apparently my idea of heaven is a large country cafe.... getting off point here)

Anyway, ladies and gents, it was a moment in a day that was made just for me.

I love rain, and everything was covered in nice large dewy drops, making the peaches smell ever so more divine.

The clouds above large and grey,but holding off a little longer just for me.

The orchard owners' dog, Ruby Mae, kept coming out and checking on me, eating an occasional dropped peach and making sure I wasn't stealing too many peaches, which I would always remind her "Your Mom said I could take as many as I would like" whereas she would flop to the ground and yawn.

A shy kitty cat would stroll out and rub on the peach boxes then run away as I tried to pet her.

As I packed my rain drop drenched jewels into the car, this is usually where I would start thinking about all the delicious-ness I would concoct in my kitchen with them, and where I do have some yummy things I do like to make with peaches, a pie, shortcakes and a delish cocktail made with bourbon and peaches, but there is only one recipe that I will be sharing with you today, and its the only one that's really needed when talking about peaches.

Go to Peach Box and pick out a large, juicy looking one.

Go out on front porch and sit on stoop.

Take a large bite out of peach.

Let juice dribble down your chin and arm.

Sigh Blissfully.

Stare out at the fields, and take in the beauty of fading days of summer.

Repeat.

Chaos:

A state that lacks order and predictability.

This perfectly describes my last week.

One minute is filled with normal hectic life-stuffs.

The next you are sitting by a loved ones bedside in the hospital all through the night.

How delicate all our lives sit in balance.

How quickly things can change.

And how one moment you think that life is crazy and you are feeling sorry that you don't have enough time to do the things that you want to do, only to realize the next moment how silly you were and yet how you long for that time of innocence ( a few mere hours ago??)

Crisis is adverted folks, those that were ill are mending at home, and Manly and I are back to our normal harvest time chaos, but with a renewed sense of what is really important and thankful for God's many blessings.

(my motto for this last week...)

~Pretty Porches~

Its been awhile since I posted a pretty porch post (good grief...say that 3 times fast...)

Since summer is fleeting fast, I thought I should get one in before its too late.

Enjoy!

Hope you all have a great holiday weekend!