COLORS

It's no wonder we go to nature for inspiration - the colors are a wonder.  Just in our garden there are shades of purples, greens, yellows, and hopefully reds and oranges in good time.  Not only does this Japanese eggplant plant produce purple eggplant, its stems and blossoms are shades of purple, also.  However, variety is the spice of life, it's said.  I doubt they were talking about eggplant but that's where we found it. 

Actually looks like an egg - white globe eggplant.

Early Girl tomatoes should be turning red soon.  We keep checking daily to see how they're progressing.  Same with the squash plants that are producing in record speed.  They're sneaky - if we don't look down into the depths of the plant we get, as I said earlier, submarines.  Yesterday, however, we found three torpedoes. 

These will make yummy zucchini bread.

Geraniums are so easy to grow and produce such lovely flowers.  

As does the squash plant.  You can see the baby yellow squash that should be ready to pick tomorrow.  Needless to say, we're eating a lot of squash.  Along with chunks of new potatoes, I roasted chunks of squash.  A little olive oil in the pan, some Italian seasoning, and into the oven at 400 degrees for a half an hour or so.  So easy and so good.

On to knitting.  Today I'm visiting a good friend and getting her started knitting a scarf for the Winter Special Olympics.  These scarves can be knit or crochet - make a scarf today.  You'll find information at Winter Special Olympics Scarf Project.  Knit on!