Abundance

Ah! Our first garden harvest from our first real garden. The girls were so excited that they even ate the cabbage I cooked for supper. Well, Doodlebug did anyway. Here is a pic of Little Munchkin (on the left) and Doodlebug (on the right, of course) holding their haul from our garden which actually was several weeks ago now:

No tomatoes at the time the above photo was taken, but just a couple of weeks later we had these:

And the flowers were the result of some wildflower seeds I let the girls scatter wildly in a little patch of dirt near the garden. Just looking at the picture of those lovely red globes of tastiness beside a vase of simple wildflowers makes me feel all cozy and homey and thankful.

Just look at those beautiful blueberries! I wish I had a better camera so I could zoom in and get a close up of those toothsome blue gems. We don't have blueberry bushes but we do have friends with a blueberry farm. The blueberries were plump and delicious and practically falling off the bushes. They are frozen now. In my freezer frozen. We didn't have some freak anomaly in local weather patterns in case you're wondering.

I'm a city girl at heart, but there is something to be said for country living especially with children. It is just so compatible with all that is, or should be, magical about childhood.