Tuesday, July 17, 2012

summer blooms

We moved into our new house just in time for summer fruit and pretty flowers blooming in our front yard.  We pulled some lemons off our "lemonade tree" (as Owen calls it) and made lemonade.  


Love seeing these pretty hydrangeas lining our front porch area


We discovered a blackberry bush in our back yard, but they don't last long.  Jared finds and eats all the ripe ones.

Apricots anyone??  As soon as the apricots ripened, Nathan ate 11 apricots in a row!  We got tons of apricots, much more than we could eat.  We gave some away and invited people to pick apricots off our trees.  And we still had to throw a bunch away.  We started giving the boys a penny for every rotten piece they picked up off the ground.  We owed Nathan $3 the first time he threw apricots away.  This might get expensive!  Guess I better figure out how to make jam, can, or dry apricots.


3 comments:

Kathryn said...

How about making fruit leather with all those apricots? I made fruit leather out of peaches last summer because I had picked waaay to many peaches, and it was a hit. Your produce looks delicious!

Kathryn said...

p.s. TOO many peaches, not TO many!

Paula said...

I can't stand apricots fresh, but fruit leather or jam is delish! You definetly need to bottle some of that for another day when they aren't plentiful on the tree :)