veggie run and todays flowers~

It was a cold, dreary, rainy day yesterday ... a good day to take a veggie run.

We headed south ~ north of the town of Athens, WI .. about an hour and half drive from our place to check out some of the farmer's markets.   We stopped in at one of our favorite places, Morning Glory Farms.  It's a Mennonite family that runs it and I have become a very fond patron of their place.  Everything is always so fresh and so reasonable priced.

We picked up some tomatoes, squash ($1.00 a piece no matter what variety or size... I got carnival acorn, an orange hubbard, butternut and buttercup), green peppers, onions, corn, giant kohlrabi (so sweet and tender), muskmelon and watermelon.

Now this morning I'm cooking off a batch of stewed tomatoes to can ... tomatoes, green pepper, onion and celery mix.  I love having this on hand during the winter months to add to my chili.

We didn't do a big garden this year ~ and it sure is nice to have a place like Morning Glory to go to for fresh veggies ... even if it's a little drive to get there.  It's sooooooooooo worth it!

I also picked up a beauty ~ a rack of pork ribs that I'm precooking in the oven for an hour then will finish off on the grill tonight for supper.

I wish computers had smellavision ~ 

my kitchen smells wonderful right now and I'd love to share it with you!

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Do you know what you get when you totally neglect a flower bed?

Grass and Blooms!!

My poor nasturiums just refuse to let the weeds choke them out. 

I do have a new favorite flower though... the African Daisy.  What a little trooper this plant has been.  It put on a ton of blossoms for me this year.  I've been dead heading it and it keeps producing these cute little blossoms that remind me of wagon wheel spokes.  It's a keeper.

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel