Breakfast Alone

Curious, I've been waking up before the sun rises---before my two loves wake up. So I make a warm drink, coffee, tea, depends on what my stomach is hankering for. I read. I talk to God. I go outside and pick some edibles. I listen to the birds twitter and sing.

Looks like today is a frittata kind of morning...

(I picked some rainbow chards to put in the lunch menu)

beautiful and healthful...that's how I like it

threw in some blueberries and brewed some tea

this should tide me over till the two rise from their slumber

Eating breakfast in solitude is quite refreshing.

YEEOOOWWW!!!

Habaneros in the house.....yeow!

Tomatoes, Tomatoes, All Over the Place!!!

I am not a tomato person, but my hubby is, so I plant them every year. When they are small in kind, he eats them like grapes. When they are big and looking luscious....Steve eats them like apples. I cannot eat tomatoes solo. They have to be paired with something like basil and  mozzarella as in caprese, or with other greens in salad or with avocado and garlic in guacamole or with pepper and  cucumber in picadillo  or with cilantro and cucumber and chili in salsa.

Tomatoes, cherry pepper, habanero pepper, kangkong (water spinach), alugbati (Malabar spinach) and shiso



See my lemon grass growing in the background?



Steve needs to eat them fast before the fruitflies find out...

This is a Black Krimm (volunteer heirloom tomato from last year tomatoes they grew on the ground like crazy this year and I let them) 

I cut them in half and slice them in bit-sizes for Steve to munch on.
Pink Himalayan salt and pepper make them taste even better.

Do You Sprout?

Sprout some and eat some. It's good for you!

Hello Sunshine!

A Pot Garden Update

my little porch

clematis

Zachary's snack  bar bush

pretty crimson flowers
can you guess what this will become?

my favorite winged beans



blooming cilantro above
and
blooming celery below

An abundance of lettuces

 

blueberry and nasturtiums are happy together




 

Lettuce, purslane, nasturtiums and pansies with black olives and artichokes

never run out of salads



I just love nasturtiums!




 

 

Last Saturday the three of us decided to visit our (Sandy-flooded out)  home in Long Beach and do some cleaning in our very small yard. The contractor who put up our walls left a lot of  wood pieces that he should have taken with him after his job was done.  So while Steve gathered the remnants, I puttered around in my wee garden and looked (desperately looked) for my perennials. The three big potted fig trees give me no clue at all if they made it or not. Not even one little bump of a bud. Although I am now rooting their cuttings in the water and the twigs are showing signs of life, except for the violette de bordeaux that got submerged in the combination of sea and bay water.

I am hoping big hopes for my pink and white decentera (bleeding heart) and (as big as my moonface) Lord Baltimore hibiscus, hydrangeas and 3 English roses...and more. So far I lost my pine tree out  back  and the  blue spruce in front of the house. I have a feeling my beech tree is still trying to make it.

 Meantime, while my  three potted fig trees are not showing any signs of  life, the cuttings I made from there are promising something.

Black Mission twigs are rooting and leafing out

Hardy Chicago budding and starting to root

Tiger Panache rooting

 Families on our street are very slowly trickling back to their houses. We hope to get settled back in June.
We miss our house and we are looking forward to moving back in. Storm Sandy really did a number on us. But we are all right, and still very blessed.