Thanksgiving

There is still a lot to harvest. Look at this! No turkey for me with thanksgiving.
I will make a stew of all the zuccinni's and squash, carrots and herbs and we will see what happens! Happy Thanksgiving!

Apple Queen

And this was the Apple Queen of this year. A very humoristic start of the day!

295 varietes of apples

On our Salt Spring Island there are 295 varieties of apples growing.
The Apple festival theme this year was: Kids and Apples
The pie ladies sold there delicious apple-pies made from all kind of apples.
My choice this year was: Gravenstein-walnut-raisin pie. Very good!

Apple Festival 2010

We visited Bright Farm with 280 varietes of apples. This overloaded appletree was one of them.

Flowerarrangement from our garden

On this beautiful sunny day (birthday of my mother (86)) these flowers found their way to Roberts workplace!

Zuccinisoup

The zuccinisoup I make from these guys is so heartwarming!

In oliveoil bake a leek with pieces of the zuccini's.
Make vegetarian bouillon en put everything in it. Boil a little while and put everything in the blender or magimix.
Serve with some nutmeg and sour cream.
Bon appetit!

Sun in the rain

On a rainy day this lifts me up!

first apple

And we have one apple!

Plums

The fruittrees we planted 2 years ago already give us some delicious fruit. Sweet tasting yellow plums! The fench aroud the baby trees is because of the deer!

A lot of sunflowers

An amazing collection of sunflowers. So beautiful. This is from 1 seed and they grow all on 1 thick stam.

Beans and beans

What to do with all those beans?

Fresh to enjoy

A lot of goodies fresh to enjoy. So fresh and full of "prana".
This is the harvest of sunday august 8, 2010

More and more

The harvest is the sweetest part of gardening. We love all the fresh delicious treats from our garden. The beans are so good this year!!!

Harvest end of july

The harvest is abundant at the moment. The warm weather pays off.
Swiss chard, carrots, zuccini's, rucola, two kinds of beans, radish and the basil (already in a pesto)! Delicioso!

Sunflower

Here is the very first one. There are lots of coming flowers.

Colours and smells

Daily fresh colours and smells.

Peas are riping

Remembering the taste of fresh ripened pea's looking for some recipes for tasty dishes.

Early bird

This was my view this morning when I was an early bird on my yogamat on the deck.
Magical!!!

Sweetpeas

Every day plenty of fresh sweetpeas. Smell and colours are so delightful.

Carrots

And the carrots are on their way. Hopefully their orange colour will flourish the orange victory of the match: Holland-Brasil!

Nasturbium

All those beautiful bright colours of the nasturbium and calendula are so overwhelming... and guess what: you can eat them. In a green salad they make the whole dish!

Tonight

Tonight closed again.

Lilly

This lilly is colouring the pond today. In the morning closed and later on the day it opens completely. It's really a wonder!

Lavandula angustifolia

For me this is the most wonderful colour I've ever seen in nature.

Roses

In spring I pruned the rose very short. It worked out very well.
Beautiful healthy leaves and a lot of starting flowers!

Hanging basket

This hanging basket is so colourful! I love it!

14 june 2010

Just picked from the garden. I like this!!!

Desert for tonight

Just picked from the garden. These guys are so delicious!

catch of the day

A delicious salad and a beautiful flower just picked from the garden between two rainshowers.

Leaves like silk

Every year this tree is a real surprise. Leaves are like silk and the colour is very special!

Special poppy

This wonderful white/purple poppy just picked from the garden.
In one flower you can see the whole world.

Rainbow

Sun and rain together. It's so beautiful a rainbow in your frontgarden.
It looks you can catch it.

Abundance

Nature is quite abundant!!!

Colours and smells

From the garden to the livingroom. Colours and smells are so wonderful!

Banana/walnut loaf

A delicious home made banana/walnut loaf. To die for!

Very first salad from our garden

Partytime! Our first salads from the garden are here and taste so good. Crispy, fresh, ful of energy. A blend of salad, rucola and green onion. On the top an edible tricolour flower.
Seeded in the greenhouse on the 1th of march and in the soil half of march.

For my dearest yogafriends

For my dearest yogafriends in the Netherlands and the USA:
Helga, Ilona, Gerda, Ad, Elly, Marion, Ineke, Ursula, Namfon, Carla, Ina and Rea.

With love,
Anke

Memories of my childhood

This beautiful one found its way to the livingroom. So beautiful!

Strawberrybeds

Covered the soil with straw for a soft happy landing of the fruit in a few weeks now.

harvest

First bunch of green onions. In the salad for diner tonight.

Lilac

Full bloom of the lilac!!

More colours

More and more colours appear in this flowerbed. The smells are very enlivening!

Flower arrangement

Some flowers of our garden in the livingroom. So nice!

poppies

These flowers really pop like popcorn.

sunset yesterday

In the early evening yesterday in the left corner the same unfolded flower.

Peony

In the early morning os the 14th of may this wonderful flower opened her inner beauty.

Lupines

And here they are again: lupines. Beautiful colours and smell!

There it is!

A few days more and: our first homegrown salad will flourish our dish!

Pea's

The peaplants looks very healthy. There is a quick grow now.

Strawberryplants

The blossom of the strawberryplants is very early this year. Hopefully will this work with the bees and other insects. I saw the first lavendelblue butterfly visiting the plants.