A Delightful Lunch And A Walk Through The Garden

Hello dear friends! Thank you for stopping by for a visit. It is quite hot at our Rose Cottage! My sweet son and I have wanted to eat outside on our new garden furniture, but it has been entirely too hot for that, so we decided to enjoy lunch in our sun porch that affords a nice view of our veggie garden.



We enjoyed a wonderful lunch, all organic of course! A salad with romaine lettuce, tomatoes and raw milk cheese with my homemade yogurt dressing. I make homemade yogurt with organic heavy cream, and use it on just about everything. I take a couple of dollops, with a drizzle of olive oil, add sea salt, black pepper and a little cayenne pepper to make a wonderful, creamy salad dressing. You could add any herbs that you like as well.



My sweet son is patiently waiting to begin our meal.



We also enjoyed organic rose hip tea, served in the beautiful pressed glass pitcher my dear, sweet friend Madai gave to me, blueberry muffins made with almond flour and organic strawberries.



My son found this fellow in our yard and gave him a strawberry. He discovered the turtle was quite stuck, so he freed him and Mr. Turtle left without eating the strawberry! Hopefully a bird found it. Now lets take a walk through the garden, shall we?



The echinacea in the front garden is growing beautifully! The butterflies and bees enjoy it so much.



My dear husband and I discovered these pretty wildflowers growing in the back, near the bayou.



A pretty dragonfly. Photo compliments of my husband.



Heirloom miniature red (soon to be) bell peppers.



A pretty pink bachelor button.



Cheerful sunflowers.



Colorful salvia.



Heirloom bachelor buttons. I planted these last year and they re-seeded. I was so happy!



A sweet strawberry... one of the few the slugs did not get to before us.



Yummy chives.



Heirloom lettuces... what was left of them bolted and went to seed in this heat.



More echinacea growing in the veggie garden.




A harvest of heirloom green beans and beets.


I hope all of you are having a lovely and happy summer, making sweet memories with dear ones. Thank you for the sweet and encouraging comments! I am very blessed to have such kind friends.

Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;
All ripe together
In summer weather.
~ Christina Rossetti