My wife always washes any fresh fruits or vegetables we buy. When I saw how she had arranged them on a drying mat I immediately grab my camera and began taking photos. There are eight different types of fruits and vegetables in the photo. Cabbage, avocado, tomato, yam, poblano pepper, jalapeno pepper, zucchini, and an orange. Life is good when we eat this good. Yum!
We have been traveling for 9 1/2 months and this was what our patio looked like when we arrived home. We had a volunteer sweet potato vine attempt to overrun it. We carefully dig our sweet potatoes every year, yet they always come back ever though we have never planted them after that first year.
The back yard area has thick layer of wood chip mulch. We have a drip irrigation system back here that only supplies a small amount of water directly to the planting we put in. The bad thing is it going to take some work to clean it all up. The good thing is we will get some serious exercise cleaning it up. Sometime in the future I’ll have to do a before and after post. It really is very pretty when all the plants are growing and the birds are coming to our five bird baths. The overturned clay pots cover the drip irrigation manifolds.
A candlelight toast to our 9 1/2 months of travel with a bottle of one of my homemade wines. The writing on the tumblers confirms that I know my role in our marriage. The traveling life is great, but there is something special about being back home, even if only for a short time..
We have ended our RV travels for a few months and while not every evening brought a sky like this, many times it did. A dust storm in the desert means two things. Choking clouds of dust, but if it subsides before sunset, the dust that remains in the air brings a sunset that defies reality. There was truly magic in the air during our travels and just not at sundown.
