Today I’m missing:
- my family (pictured above are Grandma, Grandpa, and an assortment of cousins, aunts and uncles seated around the table)
- lounge chairs
- eating outside
- tourtons (incredibly delicious fritters filled with mashed potatoes and leeks and eaten dipped in honey, with some salad on the side for good measure. They’re a specialty of the Champsaur valley in the High Alps)
- our old house
- everybody sitting around together reading and having their coffee after lunch (with lots of dark chocolate for me)
- France
- summer
Baby rainbow chard. Just ignore the weeds along the bottom…
You may not know this about me, but I love to garden. I love to garden as much as I love photography (and that’s alot).
There’s something incredibly satisfying about being so connected to what you eat. Someday, I want to have a full blown mini-farm and produce most of the food my family consumes. In the meantime, I’ve managed to grow decent quantities of food for my husband and I in the small spaces available to apartment-dwellers like us. These last two years, I’ve been incredibly lucky because our landlord is also an avid gardener, and kindly gave me two of his garden beds as well as a strip along the edge of the house.
Here’s what we’ve got growing:
Butternut squash, Marina de Chioggia squash, strawberries, cucumber, zucchini, about 8 different tomato varieties, green beans, purple beans, wax beans, peas, this beautiful striped eggplant, potatoes, artichokes, peppers, broccoli, lettuce, chard, ground cherry, and carrots.
Do any of you have gardens? What’s your favorite thing to grow?
I’m headed off to the motherland (or fatherland, in my case), where I’ll be hanging out with family, gallivanting around my favorite lake in the world, eating my fill of unpasteurized cheeses, celebrating this guy’s 80th birthday, and (of course) taking tons of photos. I’ll also be starting a new project that I can’t wait to share when I get back.
I’ve got a few posts set to run while I’m gone. You can also check out the shots I took the last time I was in France here and here.
You can still contact me by email, but I won’t be able to answer my phone.
A bientot, mes amis!
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