Spaghetti sauce~ from picking the tomatoes in our garden to the finished product. These 20 jars took me almost a whole day to produce. I'm trying to decide if it was worth it.
A bouquet of backyard flowers~arranged by a daughter~to brighten the windowsill.
A great way to make iced tea. I read about this on another blog. Make a strong concentrate then pour a little into a glass and add water and ice. This is great because it doesn't take up much space in the fridge.
Gifts from neighbors and family: yellow squash, red beets and cabbage and I didn't even include the zucchini. It's great to share the surplus.
Ready, set, snap! Our beans did not do well but my Mom has extra this year. We have picked there twice but there weren't enough to can-until today. The kids went and picked them while I froze peas from our garden.
Beans in jars-adding a little salt for taste.
Into the pressure canner.
The finished product. We were able to get 21 quarts and have some extra to eat fresh. No doubt, we'll repeat this a few more times this summer. 
The first bounty from our garden: lettuce and radishes. Everything is late this year. We had an unusualy cold spring. It even frosted after the normal frost date.
Zinnias, lettuce, onions, peas. In the back of the garden are peppers, cukes, corn, beans and carrots.
This is what it looked like this morning after 2 hours of weeding.
This kitty was sleeping on my Mother's Day Gerbera Daisy so I set a lantern in the container to deter her. She didn't seem to mind.
We picked strawberries this morning. They were so nice and plentiful. It only took us 40 minutes to pick 50 lbs. Many hands make light work!
They will be so good to eat this winter.
And... even more strawberries. I just sent these dresses out to a children's boutique.
