Peacherine

Here's a little Joplin to start the day.

Other delights

Every day I pick something from the garden and eat it with a meal. Here are some photos of a few fall gems, including bok choi, mustard, spinach, and radishes. And in case you haven't noticed, my blog posts photos in the reverse order from how I upload them.

Almost November

....and my garden is still heartily producing. I already pulled up most of my tomato plants, but as you can see here those still in the ground were still blooming and producing. I picked this whole bowl of tomatoes to make either green tomato salsa or green catsup. I'll decide later this week. Alack, I ended up pulling the remaining tomato plants a few hours after taking these photos. The temperature is expected to be in the low 40s/high 30s this week, so it was only a matter of time. I thanked them tremendously for their offerings in my garden this year before pulling them up and burying them in the compost pile.

West Virginia Storytelling Festival

Last week I was one of the featured tellers at the WV Storytelling Festival at Jackson's Mill. My partner for the event was Ilene Evans, who you see in the last photo here. It was shot in the LIvestock Barn. This less-than-desirable venue was one of the only buildings large enough to hold all of the children that came. We told to 1200 students over two days. The other building is much nicer, but I didn't get any photos there...so I had to borrow some from Granny Sue's blog. The other two tellers this year were Granny Sue Holstein and children's book author Marc Harshman. Granny, Ilene, and I have told together before. And Marc was one of the judges of the Liars' Contest waaaaaay back when I first started.