lammas: a late report

As usual, I sort of missed the holiday; I always seem to miss the cross-quarters and barely remember the quarters-- but within a few days of the sabbat, I managed to make my first harvest of the year: one tomato, the first of the year; two peppers, the only ones I've gotten so far, and a rose, not the first, but the one that opened on Lammas. It's a little harvest, but it's a good looking one, and I'm glad to have it. When the community garden opens up at the end of this month or the beginning of next, i'm hoping to get some tomatoes in the ground, if there are any left, and maybe they'll fruit for real. This should have been an ideal summer for them with all the rain and the cooler nights, but I never managed to get them into enough dirt, and now most of them have been eaten by bugs. ::sigh:: But such is life, and even tasty things have to go the Way of All Things. It was a small ritual, but it was mine, mindfully harvesting what I'd put effort and thought and hope into, and even if nothing else comes of it, I've got this, and it's lovely.