Taken together. One in a little blue hand thrown pottery bowl and one in an antique porcelain blush pink tea cup. Alternate swallows. The perfect complement. I have this combination every night lately as I load our photographs. One must be very hot to know the extreme cold of the other. The sweetness raising the bitterness. Is there an irony here: to enjoy one we need a few dashes of the other. To understand sublime we must have seen despair. To find clarity in an image we sometimes turn to full blur and then focus back in from there. A little bit happy transforms to joy if we have seen a little bit of sad. To have our eyes opened to laughter we need to remember closing them in tears.
Hmm.
My big camera is still on the blink so the shots today of yesterday are all purse camera. I think I am appreciating my big clunker when using this little fully automatic camera that fits in my pocket.
Nothing changed here.
We had a good solid productive day doing just the usual things and not too much more. 
It was hot but not too hot. No rain. Queenie is not as fat as this image is suggesting. Just the little lens playing games with us. . 
The Shush Sisters broke ranks and ran off. Then ran back.
TonTon would like to show you his ball, it goes missing for days on end then reappears, retrieved with such pride. 
Mary’s Cat cannot bear it anymore. I can’t see you so you can’t see me!
Good morning. It is still dark so I cannot see what the weather is promising. It should be another dry day. Do NOT uncross those fingers yet.
There were issues with getting onto these pages yesterday. And many of you my readers and stalwart companions are not getting your notifications of my postings. I am concerned about that because if wordpress starts to let us down and you cannot find me then the work is meaningless. So I will have to design and create a DotCom blog in another space with reliable feeds and that is quite beyond my capabilities. I don’t even know the term for doing that. Or the process or the anything. And from what I gather as I have watched others it takes a lot of time and time is not something I can grow in my garden.
So we will have to think on it.
I am glad you were able to find me this morning. Have a lovely day.
celi
ps On this day a year ago.. some shots of Evanston farmers market and a badly behaved sheep!
The Kitchen's Garden 
87 responses to “Peach Ice Cream and Hot Black Tea”
If I couldn’t find you, I would surely keep looking.
Ending the day with fresh peach icecream seems more than just perfect.
The peaches are the last of the preserves from last years crop.. and very good in icecream! c
Glan you like my veranda….there’s a bit more on it here: http://marmepurl.blogspot.com/2011/08/front-porches-were-made-for-sitting.html
thank you!! c
I think you did a stellar job with your purse camera C, the last 2 shots being my favourites!
Hmm, I’m sure the WP thing isn’t anything to worry too much about.
🙂 Mandy xo
I am still gobsmacked from seeing your wedding pic on your pages this morning.. gorgeous.. c
Thanks C! 🙂 xo
I found you :-).
knew you would.. it is those sheep stealing aliens over at your place that are worrying me! c
Don’t sweat the WP thing…Going to the post from the day before, and clicking ‘next’ worked just fine. Today’s went through from the email with no trouble at all. Glitches happen, no matter what platform you use.
Great photos, even with the purse camera.Angel got to meet some goats yesterday, and a sheep, and I thought of you and all your Farmy Friends 😉
I did the same thing ..no worries !!!
Me too.
well thank you for persevering.. I hope it sorts itself out! If not let me know and I will write one of those wee letters to WP.. c
I love that photo of the cow, she looks like she’s posing!
You are right Eva, that is Daisy’s favourite (are we eating yet?) pose! c
So adorable.
No problem finding you yesterday or today ;-). TonTon looks so proud of his ball. Daisy looks good as usual. Tell Queenie the lens always adds weight. The Shush sisters came back — the important thing. Love the picture of Mary’s Cat — like a small child playing hide & seek.
Have a good day.
Just want to slip this in here. My hometown is Vesta, on the southwestern Minnesota prairie and named after the daughter of the first postmaster.
What an unusual name.. vesta..lovely c
Still no rain? Sorry we can’t send you some of ours – our dams are overflowing. Sorry to hear of your internet worries – I was writing a post tonight and was automatically logged out (just as I finished it) and when I logged back in it took me back to my original draft. Helpful! xx
yes that draft saving thingy has saved me a few times too! c
Even though you are not using the big camera, you are still managing to take wonderful images, especially that last one of Mary’s cat. I always tell people it is not as much the type of camera you have as the eye for photos–the ability to truly see and compose, and, well, you know what I mean. So please remember that while the Big Camera is out of commission. But I do understand how you feel. Being without the Big Camera is like missing your third eye or arm.
That shot of Mary’s cat was taken when she kept lying in front of me and the camera when i was taking the shot of TonTon. Such a poser!! morning audrey! c
I tip my cup to you–happy morning!
I just hit your Home and it took me to yesterday’s post. I just love your barn. And those Shush Sisters are something else. Hope you have a great day, Celi!
Wow – you have a way with combinations!
Oh Ton Ton – what a good dog you are!
To answer the last first, although the link in the email notification didn’t work, I wriggle at it from another direction, and open the link from the sidebar of my blog: no problem and go to your “recent posts” to find the missing one. This does occasionally happen from time to time, but I’ve never not been able to get in eventually.
Your small dollop of bad to appreciate the good philosophy is summed up by the adage “into each life a little rain must fall” – I’m sure that pleases you!
ah.. you are absolutely right, that is the saying i was struggling to find!! thank you.. c
Beautiful writing on tea and icecream.
Do you drink your tea with ice cream too? c
I got to the blog yesterday, it’s just that the post wasn’t available. But I clicked on the heading and your normal homepage came up so I read it from there. I think that’s happened to me if I do an edit and update the post after the original one has been published. Whatever the cause, it’s easy enough to get to the article of the day, all that is needed is an extra click. 🙂
well thank goodness.. good morning honey! c