Yellow

You can tell the days are getting shorter - the sun was just showing the tiniest bits of reddish-yellow glimmers over the trees this morning at 5:30. By 6 all of the perpetual spinach was cut and ready to bundle.

We move our portable washing station to a different spot on the lawn each week to water it. Nothing like killing two birds with one stone.

Today's sponsor: yellow. If you pay attention, you will find yellow in many forms in this post. Even in your imagination.

This morning, I decided that 4 eyes would be much better than two when finding cucumbers in the greenhouse. Ted and Laura a great picking partners. They even walked around the outside of the greenhouse to see if they could find any cukes that they missed. Isn't it wonderful when at least one helper is very flexible? There were 51 cucumbers this morning.

It's hard to believe that even in a dry year, and despite the fact that we picked to over 8" last week, there were such large yellow zucchinis. There were 22 of them. They are so large that they are splitting the plants open.

Laura doesn't need to go to the gym today. It looks to me like she is carrying her own weight in zucchinis.

We are starting to get a handle on what grows well in the greenhouse in the heat of the summer. Swiss Chart LOVES it.

There is the odd bug hole in the beets and chard, but not too bad considering we don't use any pesticides. When I am picking, I pick good and bad leaves and then sort out the bad ones into a wheelbarrow as I wash them. They go into the compost pile at the end of the day.

Last week when I ended my post with a similar composition to this one, I never dreamed that I would have two pictures to choose from next winter. I think this would make a really cool watercolour too. And, looking back at that image, I just realized that I totally forgot to pick dahlias and ornamental grasses. Oops! Maybe it was a good thing. I kind of like how these bouquets look.

There were 146 lbs. of produce this morning for a total of 1181 for the season. Thank you gardens.

I looked up the word ‘yellow’ the other day.

I found so many shades of yellow that they had been distinguished by words like

gold

honey

daffodil.

I found words like fire and sand and champagne and lemon and sunbeam and I even found a song.

Now imagine someone telling yellow that it’s ‘just yellow’.

When yellow is a sunbeam and a daffodil and fire.

When yellow is a song.

Without yellow, we couldn’t make orange and we couldn’t create green and our world would be far less colourful because of it.

Yellow’s true colours are not limited to one thing.

And neither are yours.

Some days you are dark and fiery and intense.

Some days you are rich and bright and vibrant.

Some days you are buttercups and dandelions and some days you are champagne and a song.

And without you, someone’s life would be far less bright and far less beautiful.

You are you as

yellow is yellow.

And the world needs you.

Because, no matter what you think, you are not ‘just you’.

You are so much more.

Becky Hemsley 2023