Computer problems kept me from posting last night and this morning.  Here are just a few more photos from our trip to the bog.  I love all of that red!  Isn’t it just incredible?

The pitcher plants

I wish I had gotten better pictures of the pitchers, but I was somewhat distracted by the possibility of little ones falling into the bog.

It’s so quiet here right now that it would be eerie if it wasn’t so perfectly splendid.  Though one does have to be wary of quiet.  Quiet is how I came down from putting my baby down for a nap to find my 4 year old on the shed roof (it was very little consolation that the 8 year old was up there with him).  But since I seem to have found a couple of, hopefully uneventful, moments of peace and quiet, how about a little randomness?

I modified this recipe to make it gluten-free this morning and it was divine, but oh, all that sugar!  I’ll surely pay for it later, but I can honestly say that I didn’t care a bit while we were eating it.  If I’m naughty enough to make it again next week, I’ll be sure to take pictures and share my version with you.

I discovered a new and fabulous way of preparing summer squash and zucchini last night.  I just ate the leftovers straight from the jar and it was a pleasant reminder of how good it truly was.  I think I might even like it better leftover and cold.  Our neighbors have been over to dinner twice this week.  One of them is allergic to garlic and onions and it’s pushed me to experiment a bit.  I don’t know what to do with myself in a kitchen without garlic and onions.  I chopped up all of my squashes into a big pan, drizzled them with olive oil, followed by a couple of shakes of ume plum vinegar and a hearty splash of lemon juice.  Then I roasted them up, stirring often.  Once they were cooked, I sprinkled them with sea salt, fresh cracked pepper and liberal amounts of shredded basil, fresh from the garden.  Both company and a child of mine, who despise summer squash as a rule, had multiple helpings, so I consider it a success.

I’ve had the strangest craving for rice lately.  I can’t imagine why rice of all things, but there it is.

We’ve been eating so much corn lately!  I have a whole heap of husks that we’re saving for crafts.

I’m wondering if we will have a shot at seeing some auroras tonight.  I went out looking last night, but if they were there, it was too cloudy to see them.

And now it is too beautiful a day to spend any more time on this silly old computer!