Since school started the weather has been so pleasant.. so pleasant! I feel like we usually start the school year with some very hot days – not this year. So the weather has motivated me to do some fall-ish sewing. I made an interesting new pattern from Tauko Magazine. The pattern has really interesting pleats…

The only good news around here is that Claire has started school and it’s been lovely outside. She seems to be off to a good start to her sophmore year. Here she is walking to her first day. Here’s a photo that Bea sent. The bad news, the thing that is making my stomach knot…

I’m having a good tomato year and I can’t seem to stop taking photos. I’ve gotten enough tomatoes from my five plants to try a little canning. I bring them inside when they have started to turn red. I’m reminded of my grandma’s table, on her porch, where she would lay out all her ripening…

I’m way behind posting – we started off our August with a raclette feast. It was Swiss National Day and also a sending-off celebration for Bea. She’s off to Vienna taking some more German lessons at the University. She said she sees this view everyday. And she’s sent other nice photos of Vienna and a…

A pie – used the delicious blueberries that we picked in Michigan. Some more itty bitty art for the Little Free Art Gallery And I’m working on a stripy sweater – lots of knitting in the hammock. Time to start the sleeves.

We’ve have had the best weather over that past week or so – days in the 80s and cool nights. The garden is at the wild unruly stage and some things are starting to fade. And the cicadas are doing their thing so it’s slightly deafening outside. Anyway, here are some photos of lovely colorful…