Scenes of Summer, Part 2: Eat Your Peas...and Blackberries!

Right now, at the end of June, we haven't had rain in over six weeks, and the temperatures are reaching the 100's.  We're all--animals and plants--digging deep for water and higher spirits.  Early spring rains, though, gave us a good crop of peas and blackberries, which we have been enjoying this month.  Most of the peas will be saved to go into our end-of-the-summer vegetable soup, and the blackberries will be eaten out of hand, baked into fresh cobblers, and saved for our special blackberry jam cake at Christmas.  And though it may be hard to do when the fruit is so tasty and you are 2 years old, we always share our harvest with our good friends, like Erin, Roberto, and Luca, who recently visited us from Atlanta.