Tuesday's Treasures #2

This second treasure is also related to my mother.  Mom took up painting upon her retirement and became quite prolific.  In 1992 I asked her to paint a picture for me in the primitive style.  Now I didn't remember that it was that year, but luckily she dated her painting.

This is the painting she gave me that I treasure.

It's not true primitive style because there is some perspective to it.  My husband teases that its a giant there above in the barn because he's the same size as the woman on the porch.  I don't care because its such a wonderful pastoral scene to me.

A treasure!

Mom painted up until she died in 2013.  Her eyesight gave her trouble so her detail was not as fine towards the end, but she still had her sense of colors.  In fact she was adding color to a frame of a miniature she'd painted the week she died.

Joining Tuesday's Treasures. 

In Celebration of a Life - My Mom

My Mom

1918- 2013

A loving wife to my father and giving mother and grandmother to all her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

With some not all of her offspring.

An accomplished tole painter and landscape artist.

Never one to sit when there was food to be prepared.

2 weeks before her death

Mom, thank you!  You will be sorely missed!

What I'm Harvesting

I am amazed that the tomato plants keep producing.  There doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

I picked this basketful tonight.

Here's what I already have on the kitchen counter that I need to use or freeze.

I made an oriental soup for dinner with these greens: tatsoi, bok choy and I guess the greens from the mesclun mix that are growing are mustard greens.  They had a strong taste.

Fourth and final butternut squash.

As a postscript, my 94 year old mother is very ill and I've had lots of trips there to be with her.  I'll be going again next week.  Yesterday my daughters went with me to visit for what may be their last time with her.  Bittersweet.

Sarah (above) and Emily (below) with Grandma.

Enjoying Beans

The green beans are producing. They are the bush variety and loaded.  I picked only what we could eat Thursday evening but will have to get out there to pick more or they'll get too fat.  I also picked basil and there was one Rutgers tomato.  More hornworms discovered too but they didn't go in this basket!

My Mom visited overnight and she helped clean the beans.  She's a lovely 94 year old!