Morning Harvest to Simple Salad.

The rest, herbs. Washed, and hung upside down to dry for teas (plus saving a bit of the catnip for my mom's cat. He really is a good cat), or stored in the refridgerator (basil, mostly, and the rest of the berries) to be used in later cooking adventures.

Wild Blackberry Jam

My first experiment with my abundant wild berry crop. It's like eating liquid gemstone... deep amethyst and garnet. So very lovely, and fulfilling. Nothing like having toasted bread you made yourself (that's another post altogether, though...) with jelly which is chock-full of berries you picked yourself in your own backyard.

JOY, indeed.