My friend Rachel Storch recently posted on Facebook, these words of wisdom concerning the Pandemic. “Don’t just go through it, GROW through it!” (By “grow,” I assume she means more than those extra pounds put on from working at home. :-))
The quote reminded me that I had some big smiles this past week, that helped take my mind off the indignities of social distancing and the absence of warm hugs from family and friends.
I recall a song we used to sing in Sunday School, that went, “Smile the clouds away. Night will turn to day. If you sing and smile and pray you’ll drive the clouds away.” It was a children’s song, but good advice for a life time.
So I started by photographing some of the things at the farm, that made me smile and gave me hope, as well as fond memories.
After much delay, these sweet-tasting, Sun Gold yellow tomatoes are finally ripening. I eat them like grapes!
The joy of sniffing a fresh chanterelle. This mushroom is one of the many foraged from our nearby woods just as our rural forbearers would’ve done.
My friend, Martha, stitched this towel for me. She has the same droll sense of humor that I do.
Hooray! My struggling tomato plants are making a better-late-than-never comeback after a few doses of Miracle Grown and some organic insecticide.
Angel food cake with homemade peach ice cream made from fruit grown in the peach orchards of Campbell, MO. Like shoo-fly pie and apple pan dowdy, it “makes your face light up and your tummy say howdy.”
When this pix showed up in my email, it definitely brought a big smile. 🙂 Thanks to Gary Gaertner, who recently sent this photo to Russ, depicting Mel petting a prize-winning bull at the Missouri State Fair in 1998. (That’s Tom in the background.) Associated Press File photo
A picturesque version of the quotation I began this blog with. It’s on the side of a recycled boxcar at the Earth Dance Organic Farm in Ferguson.
