07-08-12 The Ever Elusive Butterflies!

Either I am getting too slow or these butterflies move to fast and too often for me to get good pictures. the fact that the butterfly bush is several feet taller than me does not really help either.

Their numbers still has not gone up since last post: I am lucky to see three/four large butterflies at once and, for many hours a day, I do not have a single one present besides the little white ones.

What to eat right now: some great cukes, also only one cultivar has done really well: the Adam F1, fortunately, it is also the tastiest one. You can smell its fragrance all over the house when you slice it.  
Banana peppers are starting to produce and
tomatoes of all kinds, shapes, colors and taste have started filling up the kitchen and moving into all kinds of dishes. I dried some last week, with a sprinkling of pepper. They were out of this world; never mind that I overcooked the pizza I had put them on.

Of the twenty eight tomato varieties I am testing this year, these Cherry Roma are my favorite. They never make it to the kitchen as I pop them in my mouth right there in the garden: 

 

the taste of summer!

Early morning calisthenics at the hive, and that's before coffee!