Just when winter is spreading its icy blast through the area, a few sprigs of blossom appear on this tree!
Three good things:
1. Finished all the tomatoes from the garden and prepared them by slicing, adding salt and sugar and leaving covered for a while! Yummy!
2. Enjoying my book by Katie Fforde
3. Great friends are now in China exploring the Great Wall of China!
I have never heard of doing tomatoes this way..is is a form of preserving them so that they will keep?? Always amazed how you clever people in NZ utilise so much of your home grown produce, a thing us UK residents have lost the art of! nobody much does bottling or similar over here now although there is a lean towards home baking etc at the moment.
Is this early blossom or late ...it's only just the end of your summer!!!
Oh - romance on a page - this would be great with your mum's journal - it is timeless. @happypat is right - we are useless at preserving. I think @barbsmith roasts her excess tomatoes & then freezes them - I thought I might try that this year.
@happypat I used to make jam and bottle then never use them! So now I just eat what is seasonal. Apparently the addition of salt and sugar (like quite a lot) is like making a pickle out of them - only it doesn't last as long.
Winter! I forget! Especially seeing this spring like pic! It was an instant fav! How did you process it so it looks like a watercolor? I can see you did a "white vignette" (I forget what that is called at the moment) but what else did you do? It is great!
@espyetta it is all done in my makeshift light box. No processing other than the vignette. Two A3 white sheets of sketch paper balanced at right angles and a bedside lamp shining on one side. White floor too!
Is this early blossom or late ...it's only just the end of your summer!!!