post-midsummer

[dragonlady7]

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[image description: a turkey roasting pan, oval and silver, with handles on the short edges, sitting on the long middle burner of a large stovetop, taking up the whole thing, full to the brim with red chunks of tomato stewing in their own juices] I’ve got five more big fat Brandywines to fit in here and I’m just letting it cook down a minute so I can fit them.

yesterday:

[image description: a close up of a big expanse of small tight bright yellow goldenrod blossoms, many many of them, so profuse you can’t see the bucket they’re probably in I don’t remember how I took this photo, the blossoms just opening and many of them still closed just about to crack]

this is the smaller bucket I harvested of this stuff, the one too open already to dry– there’s twice this many now hung up to dry in the granary attic, in the stage just before the blossoms pop open. Goldenrod stays bright yellow when it dries. It also gives a bright yellow dye and I’m thinking about using it on a muslin dress I brought, I’m just not sure I’ve got time to really do it. Might, today, though.

anyway. mid-late summer days! not so hot this week so I can actually enjoy it. (Your picture was not posted)