The favorite season

I love summer and probably always have. Living in New Mexico I'd forgotten about summer thunderstorms and crickets and June bugs and good tomatoes.

We've had loads of delicious ripe tomatoes every week in our CSA basket, and I have been obsessively cooking this tomato pie with them. So SO good! Hunter just grabs a cherry tomato and bites right into it. He is also loving the blackberry bush that grows next to our yard. We pick daily, and he doesn't seem to mind a little bitter redness on them. When we went blueberry picking, he spent the whole time moving along the row, picking from bush or ground, and popping them straight into his mouth. Normally I'd be cooking something with all those delicious berries, but we are eating them too fast.

 

Living more toward the western side of the time zone than I ever have, it gets dark so late, and we have plenty of after dinner time to draw with our 48 colors of chalk on the sidewalk, house, our clothes, faces, and cars.

The crickets sing our background music and we can watch for the moon to rise over the trees. It takes me back to days with my aunt Ethelyn in Senatobia.

Summer evening running is pretty great too, when you get to enjoy all those things on a newly discovered trail through the woods in your neighborhood.

Ahhh summer!

 

photos from here