The Inadvertent Farmer

Early Morning Beauty Silent Saturday

Borage in the early morning mist.

Even weeds look lovely on a morning like this!

I hope all is well with all of you.

May you have a lovely day...whether it be full of weeds or flowers!

 

An Apple a Day on this Silent Saturday

We've got a very busy day planned today...it looks to be the last bit of sunshine around here for a while.  So enjoy your weekend all...I know I will!

Apple cake recipe here...

Ver perky Applesauce recipe here...

 

 

Purple Love Poem

  Purple

Purple is the color of love,
 Purple is the color I dream of.
Purple is the color of passion,
Purple is the latest fashion.
Purple is the color of glad,
Purple is the best color they had.
Purple is the color of laughs,
Purple is what he said on my behalf.
Purple is the color of me,
Purple is the best, you see. 

Luna Moon

 

 

 

Summer Flowers Silent Saturday

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Delierious for Daisies Silent Saturday

Another silent Saturday is upon us.  We are up at the cabin right now...it is the weekend of the Blueberry Festival!  Blueberry pancake feed, blueberry parade, blueberry pie eating contest.  All the things you would expect on a summer's weekend in a small town.

Can I just say I love small towns.

I've never actually lived in a big one...I might like them too.  Who knows...

But what I really, really like are daisies.

They may not smell the prettiest of all the flowers but in my book they are certainly the happiest and no other bloom says 'summer' to me like a daisy...or a whole field of them!

So enjoy your weekend and enjoy the photos...

 

   

So what flower says 'summer' to you?

Summer's Random Photos

Welcome to another addition or the world famous 'Silent Saturday' here on the farm blog...

What?  You have never heard of Silent Saturday before?  Golly where have you been my friend?

Well it is a post with few words and lots of photos.  I do it because frankly I figure you all are tired of my going on and on all the time and want to give your ears (actually eyes) a break.

And besides that, I'm busy and don't want to come up with some elaborate post...which frankly I usually don't anyway, not my style.

But anyhow here are the photos in no particular sense or order...

 

Sorry I just had to show you this...although a little gruesome I think its a very interesting shot.  Guess the cat was full.

 

One final photo...any guesses as to what it is?

Life's a Beach...Silent Saturday

 

We're gone for the weekend...

 

I'll give you three guesses where we've gone...

The first three don't count!

Hope you are having an amazing weekend!

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I'm also over Not Dabbling in Normal today sharing a rockin' review of 'the Flavor Bible'.  A book that will take you on culinary adventures beyond your wildest dreams...

Seriously this book will rock your kitchen!

Silent Saturday Daisy Smile

Field Daisy

I'm a pretty little thing,
Always coming with the spring;
In the meadows green I'm found,
Peeping just above the ground,
And my stalk is cover'd flat
With a white and yellow hat.

Little Mary, when you pass
Lightly o'er the tender grass,
Skip about, but do not tread
On my bright but lowly head,
For I always seem to say,
"Surely winter's gone away." 

Ann Taylor

Smile...its summer!

Silent Saturday in Spite of the Rain

Another Saturday, another gray dreary rainy day here in the Pacific Northwest...

Yah, I know...what's new?

Well I wanted you all to know that although my peppers and tomatoes are a bit grumpy I do indeed have a few things that are growing...indeed thriving in spite of the constant drizzle!

 

The moss, the ivy, the fern, the late lilacs, and so many things are simply growing like crazy!  Even...

the weeds are growing like mad!

And to make lemonade out of a bunch of soggy lemons...

Clouds make for some stunning sunsets!

 

Yes we here in Washington (and Oregon) have been doing a lot of complaining about the weather.

But I suppose there is a price for living in the 'evergreen state' after all!

Silent Saturday its a Nice Day for a White Wedding!

In honor of all the pretty young and not so young brides that march, skip, and dance down the aisle in the month of June I'm dedicating this bunch to you!  It is a nice day for a white wedding!

May your love last a lifetime...

 

 

And for you non-traditional non-conformists out there...

 

Orange rocks! If I was getting married, which I already am, so I am not...I would have orange and fuchsia flowers with spring green foliage for accents.  I would married barefoot on the beach wearing a knee length hot pink dress with a big twirly skirt and a tiny little bodice...nipped at the waist.

Wait, I don't have a waist...scratch the tiny bodice part.  Maybe a hot pink Muumuu...

Anyway I was actually a June bride...back when I was a teenager.  A loooong time ago, back before cell phones and home computers, before internet and blogs.  I was married back before digital cameras...it is seriously a wonder I survived!

Really how I did I make it without the internet and my digital camera?

It is shocking what I have had to endure in my life...

Silent Saturday Foot edition

Red Foot, Black Foot...feet feet feet

How many, many feet we meet!

His feet...

Her Feet

Fuzzy fur feet?

May I just say right here that Dr. Suess rocks!

So do muddy toes!

And toes that have run through freshly mown spring grass...

Or have been wiggling in the sand.

Baby feet make my heart sing...

As do barefoot rain dances!

even ballet in the rain!

Yep its hard to beat a good foot!

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I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I'll announce the winner of the sunflower book today on this weeks kinderGARDENS post (thursday week 6) at 5pm Pacific Time!

Peace out!

Silent Saturday Viva Viburnum!

We have three very large Viburnum bushes just outside our bedroom window...I adore them!

Viburnum can range in size from 2' to 30'!  They mostly have white flowers that can be rounded like a snowball or flat like these.  Some have berries in the fall that the birds love!

They hardy, adaptable to many soils and need little pruning.

Yep pretty much the perfect landscape shrub!

Besides who doesn't like a bush that looks like its covered with lace?

Silent Saturday Mom' Garden edition

In honor of Mother's Day weekend I'm sharing photos taken just recently from my mom's garden...which happens to be next door!  Convenient huh?

 

 

And lastly my mom's favorite flower.

A rare breed of Black Lilly...

Hi Lilly...

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I'm also over at Not Dabbling in Normal sharing my apple upside down corn muffin recipe!

Silent Saturday Random Randomness

Like my thought process sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to the photos in the post besided I like 'em...simple as that!

Now go have fun people!

Silent Saturday Spring Bee edition

Yes I have trimmed his nails since this picture...just sayin'

 

 

I'm making another chair!

We're getting new bees this weekend...YEAH!

 

I can't wait!

Hope you all are having superb weekend!

Silent Saturday Hello Spring!

Its here!  Spring has finally officially for the record arrived...yippee!

 

Bradford Pear Blossom

Variegated willow bush  

Muddy boy! 

Pussy Willows 

Tiny wild daisy 

Yellow Crocus. 

Happy 1st day of spring everyone!

Silent Saturday a simple childhood pleasure

Welcome to another addition of Silent Saturday...

Today it is about one of the most simple joys of childhood!

 

 

Children + trees = thumbs up!

So what was your favorite simple pleasure from childhood?

   

The Eyes have it Silent Saturday

There is nothing like photos of eyes...something so deep and telling.  Love the way their glass like quality reflects light while giving a glimpse into the heart.

 

Yes there is just something about eyes!

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Have a wonderful weekend, may it be full of sunshine and happiness, or at the very least... chocolate!

Daffodils and Spring this Silent Saturday

I am going to shut up today and let the photos speak for themselves...spring is just about upon us.

Well here in the Pacific Northwest I have a hunch it is already here!

These were all taken last weekend at our cabin. Daffodils, spring trees...all in bloom!

 

The Narcissus were hiding behind a huge rhododendrum bush.  I had to lower my camera through the limbs and hope at least something was in focus!  

I love this next on even though nothing is in focus...it looks like a painting.

And I didn't even have to run it through a filter in my editing program!

 

I hope you all have a great weekend.

And in case I forget to tell you...

thanks for visiting!

Kim    
  
  
  

 

Silent Saturday Weed

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silent Saturday Jack Frost!

I love how frost make everything look all crispy and white!

  

And in case I forget...

 

Come back tomorrow for a Winter Garden update... 

 I can also be found today over at Not Dabbling in Normal cooking up a pot of Vegan Chili with beans and corn!

I am also entering the 2nd picture in the monthly photo contest over at Gardening Gone Wild.

Silent Saturday whatcha' ya been up too?

Well since you asked...

We've been decorating cabinets doors... 

And playing with our new train set...

We've been decoupaging letters...

And building garden gates...

We've taken baths and then made bread...yes isn't that sensible?

We've had Big Wheel races down the pasture hill...

Some of us have even painted our hands pink!

Yes we've been keeping pretty busy around here...

So how about you?

Whatcha' been up to?

 

  

Photos of my Silent Saturday...which is never Silent.

Here we are again, another Silent Saturday...

Today's post is completely random...just little snippets of my life in pictures.

 

  

Sorry about the slug...

Have a super weekend!

I can also be found today over at Not Dabbling in Normal sharing a recipe for Baked Brown Rice.

 

Silent Saturday Eat your Vegetables!

Since last week I made you hungry for fruit I figured that the veggies should get their day in the sun...or rain...or snow, whatever it is outside your window this fine Saturday!

I admitting right here that these were the veggies that I became completely enamored with last season.  These little yum yum yellow bells were amazing in their sweetness and striking color...I will grow many, many more this year!

Darling little pumpkins all in a line...

  

Beet Greens...be still my heart.

I think I'm gonna cry...oh my goodness I miss this!

Pretty little Pea Picker!

Come here my pretty!

Technically a fruit...I know...but I use 'em like a vegetable so here they will stay.

Little girl and her baby potatoes...

Pumpkin guts...and those yummy seeds!

OK...I must stop now.

I cannot take it anymore.

Can we skip to May?

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Please!

 

I can also be found today at Not Dabbling in Normal discussing pudding for breakfast as well as sharing a vegan pumpkin pudding recipe...come on, be a rebel having pudding in the morning!

Silent Saturday the Fruit Edition or I miss Summer!

Betcha can't guess what I'm thinking about!

  

 

 

 

OK...that's it

I'm declaring winter officially over...

Summer is now in session!  

 Winter...I am so over you.

I can also be found today over at Not Dabbling in Normal where we're discussing Granola!