My sauce runneth over...

and my freezer is delightfully full. This is just one weeks worth of tomatoes if you can believe that. My plants were prolific this year, and the sun time is running out on the rest of the green ones waiting their turn to ripen. This has been a great vegetable season and not bad for the sunflower either... my giant flower friend. It is hard to believe that our growing season is coming to an end soon, and that we will be feeling the cold on our fingertips again. How fast these seasons shift... one into the next till already a year has passed. I wish a quick jerk on the reins would work to slow down the speed just a little... but I guess mother nature is on her own time and I must go along for the ride. It seems the ride speeds up every year. In truth I actually relish the shift into autumn, the tangible internal shift of wanting to make yummy warm and soothing foods, hot tea mornings and crisp walks with the dogs... but not quite yet my friends, not yet.