Season journal: red

So many things that bring me joy. Here are ten of my favorite July reds (in no particular order).

One: onion harvest has begun! Onions. I love onions. I love Michael too.

Two: Beets. I love beets. The beets love hot weather, which we have this year.

Three: Jelly time inspires cake making….and eating.

Four: Currants. I love currants. I love how currants smell. Rich.

Five: E.B. Cresap, my great granddad, gave this geranium to Percy Meek Cresap, his wife. It may have been an anniversary gift. I love geraniums, but I particularly love this geranium.

Mama Hen with her five chicks make six! The feeders and waterers are red. So I’m cheating a bit, but I’m loving having a Mother Hen.

Seven: Agates. They shine red due to their iron content, derived from algae that lived in seas millennia past. Or maybe I’m just making that up and the iron comes from the basalt in which they formed. Agates. I love agates.

Eight: I find agates while walking Zeke on his red leash. Walkies. I love walkies.

Nine: The currant jelly shines as bright as an agate and will bring me the scent of summer in mid-January.

Ten: Tiny tomatoes, fresh washed, are the best.