abundant gardens

One benefit of this unusually cool, wet summer weather is that 

it is making our gardens grow!

In fact,
the zucchini in our vegetable garden is big enough now to start picking
so

I cooked up the first one last night.

 It was wonderful. 

Should have more soon. 

Also, our summer flowers are finally filling in and starting to bloom 

which makes the yard so colorful. 

 And our tomatoes have taken off and are beginning to produce a nice crop... 

...but they might ripen a bit faster with some warmer weather. 

If not,  I may need to find a recipe for

"fried green tomatoes"!