Strawberry Fields
Here are our two intrepid heroines (I'm on the bottom) off for a day at the beautiful and organic Willow Creek Orchards in Collegeville, PA.
And the fruits of our labors. We picked twenty-seven pounds!
Emily made salad (with strawberries!), and jam, and has plans to make strawberry-orange sorbet and strawberry meringue pie tomorrow. I am a lucky woman. Below is one bunch of the two bunches of asparagus we got, as well. They were grown by Willow Creek but not picked by us.
Also new in our life is the beginning of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share, which began yesterday. The first load looked particularly good, we thought, with mustard greens, baby beet greens, salad greens, romaine lettuce, scallions, pea tendrils (not the peas themselves, but the little shoot-ies, which were delicious raw and in stir fry), and asparagus.
Happy Harvest!!
Emily adds that a couple of weeks ago she finished the Shedir chemo cap from Knitty.com, and shipped it off to the lovely J with fervent wishes for a speedy recovery. Knitting it was a complete blast--beautiful cables, and such clever decreases.
This was done on size US3 dpns using Classic Elite Premiere yarn (50% pima cotton, 50% tencel) in color "Frosted Blue"(#5220). The yarn is super-soft and luxurious, and was picked with the help of a customer at Loop who had had chemo before and had some very helpful suggestions. (Including, "If it's for breast cancer, for God's sake, don't make it pink!")
And the fruits of our labors. We picked twenty-seven pounds!
Emily made salad (with strawberries!), and jam, and has plans to make strawberry-orange sorbet and strawberry meringue pie tomorrow. I am a lucky woman. Below is one bunch of the two bunches of asparagus we got, as well. They were grown by Willow Creek but not picked by us.
Also new in our life is the beginning of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share, which began yesterday. The first load looked particularly good, we thought, with mustard greens, baby beet greens, salad greens, romaine lettuce, scallions, pea tendrils (not the peas themselves, but the little shoot-ies, which were delicious raw and in stir fry), and asparagus.
Happy Harvest!!
Emily adds that a couple of weeks ago she finished the Shedir chemo cap from Knitty.com, and shipped it off to the lovely J with fervent wishes for a speedy recovery. Knitting it was a complete blast--beautiful cables, and such clever decreases.
This was done on size US3 dpns using Classic Elite Premiere yarn (50% pima cotton, 50% tencel) in color "Frosted Blue"(#5220). The yarn is super-soft and luxurious, and was picked with the help of a customer at Loop who had had chemo before and had some very helpful suggestions. (Including, "If it's for breast cancer, for God's sake, don't make it pink!")
posted by EmilyG at 7:35 PM
4 Comments:
rrrrr,
I think you should have a separate login, -iza, so that when you post it doesn't read as Emmy-. (on my aggregator the posts start with the author name, so I was very confused when you said you were in the lower picture...)
--sm, being extra-anal as usual.
You both look very intrepid explorerish! We have not had much in the way of fresh veggies here as it has been cold, rainy and more north than Philly. I visited the farm where we have a share, and things are growing! Can't wait for fresh veg.
Dan
Phillies fans in the house might have something to celebrate this year!
Shhhh! Not so loud... You might scare it away...
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