Picked the last of my sugar pumpkins and decided to let the squash keep kicking out as long as it wants to (this striped variety is delicious). Cover crops are getting sown into the gardening tubs, and carrots look good for the growing/taking this late fall/winter. I'm trying to practice restraint with the tomatoes; there are plenty of green ones on the vine but frankly I'm sick of eating tomatoes.

Lovely lunch with local folk at the farm today (their own beef and veg), what a perfect sunny day to spend outside visiting, eating, and picking flowers to bring home. It was beautiful just to wander through the spent sunflowers, honeybees collecting what they can before the rains come.

Sometimes I feel so grateful, I cry just to be happy to be alive in this moment.