The Harvest Time

Chokeberry - my new passion

I'm not a country girl and I'm not used take some salat or herbs or potatoes right from the earth. It makes me so suprised and happy when I can really eat someting I have grown by my self!
Yesterday I made juice of chokeberrys and I love it. The berry is not tasting good if you eat it just like that, but when you make juice it is little like wine. I must admit I used a lot of sugar.It's also very healthy. I don't drink any alcohol so It's good to have someting so delicous to make a toast with!

A toast to long hot summer!

The chokeberry bush with bunches of lovely black berries. They are so easy to pick. 

It took some ten minutes to gather about five liters. They are very sour if you eat them raw.

This is my new machine to make juice. You put water into the bottom level and berries into a toplevel, cook and open the tap, juice is running...

So here it is! My chokeberry juice! It is almost black.  It's a also really nice to make  beautiful look for the bottle also...

There is someting about Flowers

Kaija's Flower of the week 
is a bunch mixing  all the rest what is left in the garden

It happens always when I should do someting urgent, I step out and start going around picking up the flowers. I calms me down and I forget everything else. To day it is an unbeleaveable august day, hot like midsummer and  the wind is so soft but very strong, like in Italy!
I deside to enjou the end of the summer here, look how the trees get color and go bac to the winterhouse when I'm ready here in the country.

A great mix: A hydrangea, a pink rose, milfoils, mallows and something from a field.

I'm happy there are sitll so many flowers blooming.

It's a great pleasure to find the right vase and backround for your stil life. I have beautiful old Arabia-factory servise and the grave boat makes a bood basic for a horizontal setting.

Summer is not over yet! 

The cress is one of the flowers you and also eat.  The rest of the summer I'll eat only flowers. I'm sure it makes me beatiful and healty!  The acvarel at the background is my Eila-sister's work.