Posted in Delicious Joy

Collards Are

Collards are probably my favorite winter vegetable. (Delete “probably.”)

Yesterday morning Robert and I went to our incredibly and beautifully diverse Savannah Farmers Market, where I grabbed a bunch of the green delicacy.

I rushed back home to clean them (the collards, not the farmers) and create my favorite part of the collarding experience— making the collard bouquet!

Isn’t she beautiful?!

Next, the chopping into manageable pieces. (Which sounds a bit too much like “Sweeny Todd” to suit my fancy.)

After placing the greens into an already-been-cooking mixture of broth and ham seasoning meat, and impatiently waiting for them to slowly cook …

DELICIOUS JOY!

Wait! Don’t throw those too-thick collard stems away, for goodness sake. Make homemade vegetable stock with them.

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Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/12//24

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. January’s camellias here in Savannah.

2. I know I have expressed gratitude about this before, but isn’t it just such an incredible luxury to have Hot and Cold Running Water?!

3. This little fellow I met yesterday.

We chatted for a while. And he posed for a pic.

4. Simple sidewalk beauty.

5. A little bit of Christmas simply refusing to go away.

May weekend beauty find you.

Posted in Nature

Red

Our very old and hearty “nothing-kills-me” begonia.

“Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.” – Derek Jarman