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It is a lovely summer evening  here tonight. Hardly any wind which is nice. I'm sitting in my family room looking out the window at golden barley , big old green pines, and the hazy mountains beyond. The sun is still up at 8pm. I love the light at this time of the day in the summer.

I was out in my garden today getting a good picking of beans. They  are a heritage variety called Purple Pod. I love the thought that they've been around for years and years. I don't know the history of them - maybe they came out with the settlers in the 1850's. I have an apple tree variety (Peasgood's Nonsuch) that came out here from England with the early settlers. Here is a picture of my purple pod beans. When you cook them up the colour disappears and they come out green, but they are so pretty before cooking. This picture does not do them justice.

I also have zucchini coming out our ears! I'm giving it away there is so much, and I was really excited last night when out watering the pumpkin patch to find this hiding away under the huge pumpkin plant leaves. I have lots of teeny weeny pumpkins coming on, but this is the biggest one so far.

And all you northern hemisphere dwellers might be encouraged to hear that I saw the first sign of autumn today. Just down the road in a shady spot are some Poplar trees, and they have turned yellow and dropped their leaves.

I have loved our summer this year, and we still have our summer holiday at the beach to come in a couple of weeks, but I have to say that I'm looking forward to winter. I love winter and I love stormy days as long as I can stay home and enjoy them.