First day of summer vacation and Jeb is already off at the beach with his dad. Without a sunrise drop-off at the bus stop, I let myself sleep in a little longer. Wake up leisurely. Watch the the kitchen illuminated by the morning.
We’ll be moving soon and photographs will have new angles. I’ve loved the light cast through these windows near the kitchen sink.
This morning, I archive some smaller harvests – onions, eggplant – the last from this garden.
Linger in the light.
I make the pumpkin coconut soup and the Bohemian saves the seeds.
He’s got a little collection stashed – bush beans, watermelon and now, pumpkin.
We don’t yet know where we will be living in November, but we’re storing seeds and dreaming of that future garden.
I hope there’s plenty of room to grow. So far, current starter crops are stretchers – all tendril and vine.
Jeb discovers a katydid trapped in a spider’s lair, just outside our front window. One of these leaf-winged insects made its way on to the Archives recently, with a posted titled “A New Leaf“.
We are turning over our own proverbial new leaf, as we prepare to move July 1.
The Bohemian wants to leave things better than we found them, so even though he’ll no longer be reaping the fruits of his labor, he spends Sunday afternoon turning over a garden bed and removing weeds. He lays cardboard at the bottom and replenishes with fresh soil. He’ll be planting easy-care, edible ground covers like mint and marjoram.
I come outside to soak in the harvest. The last one for us from this garden.
I’m sorry for the katydid, but I guess this is part of the life cycle. Seed and harvest, new and old, life and death.
The one ever-present constant, change.
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