August Celebration

It was a brooding, gray backdrop kind of day...

Where yon billow broods and breaks,

Where the shower spills its lakes...

Where the flower-bower-toast

Thrills us to the uttermost

Where the planted furrow brims

With fruition’s harvest hymns...

(Farmer-patience is tried this year due to much rain!

The neighbor's were able to salvage the last of the straw just before today's soaker!!)

Where dust, threshed from wheat and rye

Wafts between the earth and sky...

Where cricket-minstrels repeat

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Where garden has Cook beguiled

With dinner-buffets, run wild...

Last night's supper bottom right corner...grilled zucchini-rounds

topped with browned ground beef-green pepper-red onion medley

Where yon billow broods and breaks,

Where the shower spills its lakes

Where the flower-bower's toast

Thrills us to the uttermost

Where the planted furrow brims

With fruition’s harvest hymns

Where the hand of God anoints

Earth in exclamation points

Where wonder and worship meet

In climaxes, simple-sweet

Where delight and sadness spar

Where hello and farewell are

Where we revel in the bliss

Of the afternoon that is

While the gate to twilight’s star

Waits to swing softly ajar

Where dust, threshed from wheat and rye

Wafts between the earth and sky

Where cricket-minstrels repeat

Repertoires of tweet-tweet-tweet

Where garden has Cook beguiled

With dinner-buffets, run wild

Where bravado cannot stay

What no wish can keep at bay

Where hollyhock bistros buzz

With busy bee biz, because

Where each honeyed moment drips

A sparkle of August slips

From lips, fingertips, and sighs

Where before our very eyes

Heaven lends to earth a hint

Of what waits beyond Time’s stint

Where we cannot comprehend

Awesome August without end

Where goldenrod wicks are lit

Just for the sheer joy of it

Where, beyond four-seasoned tide

Rolls a summer countryside

Where death never enters thought

Mum blooms with forget-me-not

© Janet Martin

Tonight's supper...

Green Bean Casserole

2 of my bean jars didn't seal from canning this year

and because I prefer canned beans for this dish, it was the perfect side!

Comfort food on a very fallish feeling evening!

(I also use milk rather than sour cream)

Zucchini Casserole

I added a bit of ham to make it a one-dish meal

(for a 9X13 pan I used 2 more eggs and added a generous tbsp. of melted butter to the olive oil)

another recent meal fav using Swiss chard

Feta was a splurge extra 😊😋