October Colour.
We still have colour in the garden. I commented a couple of weeks ago that I thought we should get more roses flowering - and here they are, taken this afternoon;
As you can see it was raining heavily this morning.
After the sad death of the marguerite last winter - I now have a lovely bushy Michaelmas daisy;
And you can see the sedums in the foreground are now a deep dark pink. Here are some more of them, with the first red spikes of the hesperantha and, of course, Caravaggio!
And some winter pansies in one of my pots -
And, for something completely different, in church today the children and I were looking at the story of Esther - who God ensured was the right person in the right place to save her people. This is the event celebrated in Judaism at Purim, and so we made some hamantaschen which are the traditional pastries associated with that celebration.
Here are some of the ones we made. They were not, necessarily, authentic - we used short crust pastry and raspberry or strawberry jam. Charlie's and Charlotte's were probably closest to the right shape: a couple of the littler ones didn't quite squeeze all the corners quite hard enough - but they tasted very good!
As you can see it was raining heavily this morning.
After the sad death of the marguerite last winter - I now have a lovely bushy Michaelmas daisy;
And you can see the sedums in the foreground are now a deep dark pink. Here are some more of them, with the first red spikes of the hesperantha and, of course, Caravaggio!
And some winter pansies in one of my pots -
And, for something completely different, in church today the children and I were looking at the story of Esther - who God ensured was the right person in the right place to save her people. This is the event celebrated in Judaism at Purim, and so we made some hamantaschen which are the traditional pastries associated with that celebration.
Here are some of the ones we made. They were not, necessarily, authentic - we used short crust pastry and raspberry or strawberry jam. Charlie's and Charlotte's were probably closest to the right shape: a couple of the littler ones didn't quite squeeze all the corners quite hard enough - but they tasted very good!