Week 13

Siblings ready to roll.
Off to pick berries.
Hats to protect little heads.

"Funny shaped raspberry, Aunt Lorrie."

More to ripen. A promise of what's to come.

These are all doubles.
I need to do some research to find out why.

A ripe Ananas Noire tomato. Yum. 
Picking tomatoes does wonderful 
things to your hands, too.

The newest from Oregon State University,
Indigo Rose tomato. Purple on the outside, red on the inside.

White eggplant, named Casper.

Old fashioned eggplant. Very slow growing.

Yellow Patty Pan summer squash.

Indigo Rose after one bite.

Lady bug on a purple bean leaf.

Various cherry tomatoes.

What a silly looking yellow
crookneck squash. :)
We giggled over this one.

Oh, newly dug potatoes. Hmmm.
What should we do with you?

Corn tassles.
The pollen in the purple parts needs to land
on the corn silk of the ears or the corn kernels won't fill out.

Tassles with pollen.

Corn silk on the top of the ears.
Each goes to a corn kernel.

Dahlias, blue statice.

Cactus zinnias and snapdragons.
Every kid loves to play with snapdragons.

Roses, blue statice.

Yellow calla lilies and yellow yarrow.

A strange looking triple zinnia.
How cool is this!

Very fragrant carnations.

I can't get enough of this two toned rose.

Such delicate colors on this rose.

Grams favorite dahlia. Yes, this is it.

An iced latte break with coffee ice cubes, too. Lisa usually makes her own coffee syrup, she's creative like that!

Week 12

Our small harvest girl has the 
cutest toes today.

"Cousin Alex, that sun sure is bright!"

"A pumpkin!"

"Ohhh, here is another one."

"Mom, whatcha think, maybe this one?"

Lady bug on the parsley.

The cantaloupe are growing.

Striped watermelon sunbathing.

So are the watermelon.

A huge cantaloupe. Only two of these in the patch.
Their name on the seed packet was "Giant Cantaloupe". 
It is about a foot long.

A cart full of produce.

This is what happens to cucumbers
when the weather goes from hot to hotter
and water can't keep up.

"Looky, sunflower seeds."

Pretty colored tomatoes of all sizes.

Lemon cucumbers.

Slicing cucs.

"Millionaire" eggplant. Long and lean.

Patty Pan.

Sitting pretty. 
Her cup has good balance.

Colorful radishes.

A refreshing afternoon beverage. Thanks 
Anna and Lisa.

Cipollini and Candy onions.

Purple turnips.

How did she get here so fast?

Full cart from the orchard.

A wagon of sunflowers.

Love the colors.

Different colors.

Just one more.

A wagon load of dahlias.

Lisa's table of bouquets. Awww.

Pink roses, pink dahlias,
blue statice.

Up close.

And yet another.

Dark pink dahlia.

Two tone rose.

Opening up and pale-ing out.

Pink statice with
yellow accents.

Blue statice with white accents.

All together.

Warm day, fruit eating cherub needs a ride!
She even is cute with a sticky face.

A delicate rose. 

A plethora of sweet peas.
So many colors and varieties, here are a few.

This one looks shy.

A volunteer sunflower
in with the sweet peas
and yellow yarrow.

Many seeds have formed.
Next the birds will be
hanging upside down
to snack!

A yellow pear tomato truss on the plants by Dad's
backyard gate. The rule was you ate the tomatoes
at "your height". That way even the
little kids could eat off the staked plants, the lower branches :).