Wedding Preparations

Great-Grandma's Pillow

While looking for a few castaway treasures from Grandpa and Grandma's home, I came across Great-Grandma's pillow. The worn applique on black caught my eye. I began to look more closely to decide whether this was a treasure to keep when I caught site of a bit of embroidery underneath. No more did I wonder if this pillow was coming home with me.

At home I began to dissect. Out came a beautiful embroidered basket of flowers. But there was more.

 Mom finished the excavating process and found three more layers of pillow coverings making a total of five. If this pillow could speak, it would have many stories to tell.

Happy Zinnias

Tractor to the Rescue

What do you do when one day's tomato, pepper, onion, and elderberry harvest is backbreakingly large? Use a forklift.

P.S. This picture was taken one week ago. Today's harvest was even larger! Tomatoes, anyone?

Pot of Plums

Our plum tree rarely gives a good crop, but this year it made up for its previous negligence. Plums out of our ears! Plum sauce, plum jelly, plum juice (for jelly in the future), frozen plums (amazing in cupcakes), dehydrated plums, and many given away.

Photo courtesy of Mom

Engagement Picture Session

Dad's Head of Romaine