pigeon

One late august afternoon,

at Lakeside Park.

le pigeon

Harvest

This year I've tried one brand new thing:

Joining a community garden!

With 20 or so other people,

including my neighbour and friend Kalika,

we all had some crops on a piece of land 15 minutes out of town.

On a beautiful farm belonging to charming people, Audrey & Marvin.

I did tomatoes, peppers, and some basil.

Well all my pepper plants died cause I put them out too soon.

But the tomatoes survived and they're just starting to ripen now.

Even better if put by the window...you know, warm nights etc.

So I'm hoping the others members

of the community garden will appreciate them

as much as I enjoy their crops of

beans, lettuce, onion, garlic (which was so much fun to braid) ...and SQUASH !

All kinds of squash.

Here are some yellow crookneck ones.

I can't wait to harvest some of the bigger carving pumpkin too,

they're huge.

sunday morning ritual

Sunday mornings...

haaa (deep breathing)

Weither it's going to be a lazy day or a super productive one,

I love drinking yerba mate.

I find it helps us focusing without getting the jitters.

This chocolate hazelnut mate brewed in the morning sun,

yummy.

When I took that picture,

I did not know how much

I was going to need mental clarity that day!

Idaho Peak

So we went there for the spectacular view and for the incredible flowers...

T'was a windy hike...

Our favorite:

Anemone occidentalis

The Western Anemone

This is actually the seed head of the flower, which blooms when the snow melts.

so

many

flowers

...

Ok so that's where painters get their inspiration!

And the view!

Not even from the 360 degrees look out!

Kim, it does get better up there!