Scott, over at Views Infinitum, has posted a photo challenge – to capture the end of summer. Or at least what represents the end of summer to each of us.
I’ll be keeping my eyes open to see what I might find. For now, enjoy some tomatoes from my garden. Now that it’s mid September the plants have decided to hand over a bit of goodness.
Garden bounty
Seems they always wait until the last minute. Tomato plants are fickle that way.
Change Is Hard 
September 17, 2012 at 8:45 am
Thanks for the linkback, Dawn! Like the new layout.
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September 17, 2012 at 10:29 am
It seemed to be a funny year for tomato’s – my plants grew huge but I really didn’t get many tomatoes even though they were covered in flowers. There was plenty of bees around too so am not sure why they didn’t fruit more.
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September 17, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Our plants are huge too and not much fruit. But what we DID get was GOOD!
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September 17, 2012 at 12:14 pm
That looks yummy!! My garden is a mess this year, I vow to myself that I will fixed it next year and maybe I can start sharing some of that yummy veggie pictures. 🙂
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September 17, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Ha ha ha! I say that EVERY year!!
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September 17, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Your tomatoes are such pretty colors! I had to dig mine out last weekend, they were all done. My peppers are still feeding me though.
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September 17, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Well that’s a long story. We were out of town Memorial Day and the following week. So I didn’t buy any plants until we came back. Pretty much all the tomatoes that were left were “Black” tomatoes (the purple colored ones)…which are pretty weird but still taste good.
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September 17, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Are those purple tomatoes? They are so pretty, Dawn. We have lots of tomatoes right now, but not enough for another canning session. Do you find time to can with a full time job?
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September 17, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I’ve never canned anything. I wanted to learn a few years ago, but a friend’s Mom, whom I always figured would show me how told me she was too old and tired. LOL. So I never learned. We don’t have enough tomatoes to can anyway. I remember pickled peaches my Mom used to make. Man those were good….ahhhhh…..
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September 17, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Those are great-looking tomatoes! At least you planted some – I really lazied out this year and planted. . . nothing. Not. One. Thing. But I cannot say I’m weeping about it.
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September 17, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Nope I bet not. I’m thinking we could turn it into lawn and go get our veggies at the farmer’s market.
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September 17, 2012 at 7:28 pm
It did us NO GOOD to plant veggies this year — everything dried up in the drought. We got maybe three tomatoes, total. And one bell pepper, maybe. It was quite pitiful!
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September 17, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Yea…kinda of a waste of money and labor, don’t you think?
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September 17, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Those tomatoes look really pretty and the purples ones are gorgeous. I don’t think we have any purple tomatoes over here at all.
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September 17, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Finally cooler weather for the keys.
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September 18, 2012 at 6:34 am
Your ‘cooler’ is probably still our hot!
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September 18, 2012 at 8:38 am
I guess the end of summer for me is apples on the ground, goldenrod along the roadside, and asters in my meadow. Oh, no, that’s only the beginning! It’s hawks migrating. It’s chilly rain. It’s putting away swimsuit and beach towels (used once!) and getting out heavy sweaters and warm jackets. It’s much less traffic! And yes, those last Roma tomatoes from my garden–not many of them, but they are really good. Oh, and then my blackberry jam and jelly project, about one-third accomplished, with all the rest to go….
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September 22, 2012 at 7:07 am
A good description PJ!
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