O, sweet heaven

[pjthompson]

The peaches on the tree have been looking plump and gorgeous, but you can't always tell by looking. Mom wanted to go out and gently squeeze some, but after her last bad fall back there a couple of weeks ago we've both been nervous about her making the trek on her own. We linked arms and took a stroll and started feeling up peaches.

Most still had more time to go, but some had ripened enough that we picked them, thinking to have peaches and cream, but we got so enthusiastic Mom decided there might be enough for cobbler. So that's what we did, made the first peach cobbler of the season. I am resolutely waiting until after dinner to eat it. I am mighty and disciplined. But I would not have had so much fortitude if I had not done much peach sampling in the peeling and slicing stage. Oh, sweet heaven!

I thank the Green Man and the peach tree for the beautiful bounty this year. The entire neighborhood will share in it.

But not our peach cobbler! That's just for us.

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid in L.A. one of the houses we rented had huge, old peach trees in the back yard. Every single year they bore more peaches than we four kids could eat, and we could eat a lot. *g*

And my mother made cobbler for weeks. I can still taste it, sweet and full of nutmeg and cinnamon. Makes me hungry just to think about her cobbler.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That sounds just heavenly.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

That does sound heavenly. Our cobbler tasted so good. These peaches are small clingstones, but they're the sweetest peaches I've ever tasted.

When I was a kid we had a peach tree at the old house. Those were huge freestones and they were wonderful, too. Mom would make peach pies by the ton (it seemed) and freeze them so we had fresh peach pie through the fall. We did that last year with this tree, too. We'll have to see about how things go with the pie making. We thought we might try freezing a cobbler and see how that go.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful afternoon. Enjoy the cobbler this evening!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was divine.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Heh...it's just fascinating reading baout someone who has an outdoor peach tree, and who can pluck and eat peaches already now. :)

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

And they'll be gone by June. When do they come on in Denmark?

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Heh...never. Some very optimistic people try to plant them in greenhouses, but I'm not sure how successful they are with the fruit-bearing.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Oh!

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

You are so lucky! I would love a peach tree but our summers are too short and winters too cold. Eat many cobblers for me.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I'll eat as many as I can! :-D

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Man! Now I want pie.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for peach pie one of these days soon.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

As always, you make a simple moment beautiful.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-)