E 1/2 Road Farmer's Market

My mom lives just a little ways away from me (which is sooooo awesome), and she has the most AMAZING organic garden every summer. She's really generous about sharing her flowers and produce; we jokingly call it the "E 1/2 Road Farmer's Market." (The way roads are named around here is crazy...have you ever seen letters with fractions?)

A couple pictures from the garden tour my mom took me on this morning...squash blossoms and ladybug love...

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Poppies Make Me Happy

My favorite plant that we have in our gardens is the poppy I planted the summer we moved in. I love the color of these flowers, I love the shape, I love the green fuzziness of the pods. I think I feel so attached to poppies partly because when I was a little girl, there was a huge field of them down the meadow from the little log cabin where we lived.

There were one or two poppies in our garden last week, but I looked out the window this morning as I was fixing my herbal tea and they had gone crazy overnight. Yay!

Last year I was traveling to Boston for work a lot, and there was one week where it became apparent that they needed me the following week, too. I flew all the way home to Colorado for a day and then back the next, to see my husband, sure, but also beacuse the poppies were blooming and I didn't want to miss them entirely. Ridiculous, I know, but that's how much I love poppies.

Hope everyone has a great week!

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