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| Chemeketa volleyball players helping out their community by helping us pick today. Many of our summer helpers are teachers who have gone back to school/work and aren't available to pick today. These girls (and one guy friend) were a wonderful help. |
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| Here they are just before they left for the day. They picked all the cherry tomatoes, the large tomatoes and the zucchini and yellow crookneck squash. Thank you very much! |
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| Angie snacking on some of the cherry tomatoes the Chemeketa volunteers picked. They picked a LOT of cherry tomatoes. |
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| Today's bucket of tomatillos. Some purple, some green and a few yellow. |
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| Doesn't Anna's lunch today make your mouth water? Homemade pizza. Yum. |
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| Quite a few eggplant are ripe today. They have been loving the hot weather. |
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| Anna brought out a second pizza using a plethora of cherry tomatoes topped off with fresh basil. The smell is wonderful, too. |
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| Angie and Bryan bringing in all the tomatoes the Chemeketa students picked. |
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| Kids, don't do this stunt! Bryan is thinking of building a rack for the cart after this maneuver. Angie thinks he's pretty funny! |
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| Oh my, these are so gooey and delicious. |
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| Pasta salad with fresh veggies. Are we spoiled? YES! |
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| Another view in case there was any doubt. |
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| Levi let me hold him. Sweet boy. |
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| Rocking the Oregon Garden hat. |
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| Isn't he adorable? |
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| What blue eyes you have my dear. :) |
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| A few yellow beans today. |
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| The tomato sorting begins. Some of each color for every box. |
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| Extra were picked today for the tomato tasting at 4:00. |
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| Today's cherry tomato blend. So many colors. |
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| The harvesting of the sage is happening here. |
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| Florencio washes off the carrots. |
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| Out in the pepper patch. These are Hungarian Wax hot peppers. |
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| Jalapeno peppers. They start out green and mature to red. More cracks usually means hotter. |
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| Large red cayenne peppers. |
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| Jalapenos, some plants are taller than others. |
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| Lunch box peppers. That is actually their name. They also start out green and mature to orange. |
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| Anna brought out her beautiful plates for today's tomato taste testing. Each tomato has a name tag. |
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| Tomatoes are labeled, bite sized chunks reside next to the whole tomatoes to show what the complete tomato looks like. Even salt if someone likes salt. |
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| Alex showing off the bouquet bag Lisa purchased when we went to the Seattle Mariners' game and visited Pike Place. Lisa and I always go check out all the flowers when we go on our annual family Mariners trip. |
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| There were so many flowers today Alex (my daughter) is able to take some with her to her place in Portland and her new school in Gresham. She is a culinary arts teacher. |
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| Cheese under the bug screen for nibbling on between bites of tomatoes. We are ready. Let the tomato tasting begin! |
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| Today's list of goodies. |
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| Cherub bouquets adorn the stroller. |
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| Another one. |
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| One of the large dahlias is rather lonely in the bucket. Sometimes these large ones have short stems that don't work in a bouquet. |
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| Bright colors show off in this bouquet. Lisa diligently working in the background. |
See next time on the blog.
Lorrie
