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”
A home grown blogging platform is almost certain to perform worse than WP. WP has been in development for years, they know the ins and outs, they know the security issues (which are manifold), and they have most of the bugs worked out. They also have a lot of nice features (though new features are likely the source of new bugginess). Coming from the software development world, this is something I know – rolling your own is very time consuming, expensive, and difficult. If the problem doesn’t go away soon (and I imagine it will), let WP know about it. Their blogging platform is the closest thing to what you want already, and they are a very helpful bunch of people who know what they are doing.
Couple of my very favourite posters here have changed their way of access during the past few weeks: sadly to no end of trouble . . . well, we, the readers, have been just as ornery and gone
‘in’ whatever way we found! The ‘Duke of Kupa’: that is one entry to you I shan’t forget 🙂 !TonTon does pose and how, doesn’t he 😀 ! Pat him first for me and then Mary’s cat . . . !
I am catching up after some days off with the flu. What a drama with the hailstorm. I hope it did some good and not too much harm. As for tech things not working, my astrology pals say it’s because Mercury is retrograde and all will be well on August 8. If your big camera gets its act together then, I might start believing.
I got The Notice (page not found) when I clicked the notification in my email yesterday. (2 days ago, now) I clicked “home” at the top of your blog, and up popped the post in question.
I love your opening paragraph. It’s beautifully written and oh so very true. Sometimes there are things we know but we absolutely need to be reminded of them from time to time. Thanks for the reminder.
The photos seem to hold that “bleached” quality that you so aptly described in an earlier post. It’s quite appropriate for August, don’t you think? More of that irony? 😉
Yes, the ying and the yang of it. “It” being life. The shadowy bits to define and add volume – build depth of field. Not a pleasant feeling when you’re knee-deep in the shadows, but the joy is more fully appreciated when the light comes back around, eh?
There are all sorts of issues with WP right now – not just your blog.
I’ve had some luck going into my WP Reader Blogs I follow and changing notification frequency setting – even if it looks ok.
But I also have my favs bookmarked on my computer – so if WP “loses” the whole list as it did once before, I can reconstruct it.
And the farmy and you are worth looking for!
Great Photos:)
TonTon’s coat is always so shiny which is amazing. Maybe it’s all the vinegar baths. Great photos. I’ve had some computer issues so I’m catching up.
we could do a lot of note comparing when it comes to computer issues! c
This heat is sweltering, so that peach ice cream sounds great right now! Hi, TonTon!
Oh.. what a lovely metaphor at the beginning of the post. I can safely say that by my age the joy outweighs the tears.. simply because by now I have had so many tears I appreciate life at it’s finest..every.single.day! And.. I was pouring add the tea into your ice cream recipe so that they could meld together in the ice cream machine:D xx Smidge
mercy don’t do that!! though knowing you you would find a way to that would be perfect.. c