I couldn't resist a photo shoot when I saw these fancy-dressed girls picking from our cherry tree. And since the cherries are s o u r, we had to put them to good use. I started out to make preserves, but ended up with more of a simple cherry-ginger compote by cooking down cherries, sliced ginger, and organic cane sugar. I did preserve one jar with a low-sugar pectin, but the rest was promptly eaten by the cherry-pickers :) I love seasonal bounty.
Sweet (or should I say sour?!)!! I love making sour cherry compote and pie filling for the winter. So yummy. And the poofy dresses? Over the top cute (can you tell I have boys?).
ReplyDeletelove the green dress!
ReplyDeleteThanks Denise and F.T. That green dress used to be mine when I was yea big. My mom saved a lot of my special clothes from when I was little. Good thing I have girls :)
ReplyDeleteI was planning on leaving mine for another week, and then noticed that some of them (the tree is a youngling) had already been eaten by the birds! Gasp! They got all of them last year, so I snatched the whole ones for myself. :)
ReplyDeleteSo precious. My oldest can often be found out in her nice dresses digging for worms.
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