u-pick 'em and i'll eat 'em...

here's a little peek at our day at fleeman's farm, run by a darling, charming mom and pop. we were chased by some ominous, black clouds and flickers of zig-zag lightening, but we managed to come away with a bucket of berries and violet-stained fingers.

my husband even took me to a delicious dinner afterwards in athens, ga at farm 255. hard to believe we had an appetite after consuming mouthfuls of the yummiest blueberries we have ever tasted.

blueberries for sal...

...or really for me and eddie. or for anyone who wants some! we picked a gallon of the sweetest, tangiest berries yesterday. i have a few plans for some of 'em, but our cups overfloweth with these bad boys! we have plenty to share- neighbors? anyone? bueller?

i must admit, i am crushing on summer 2010 pretty hard. my one wish would be to teleport my sweet new york friends here with me. i am wishing extra big on that one. if y'all come i will fix you blueberries and cream for breakfast every day. pinkie swear.

peachy keen...

attempting to have a productive saturday. made homemade hummus and rosewater infused lemonade. started a georgia ephemera wall in our living room. soon-to-start sorting my thrifted findings from yesterday with momma stelling. stay tuned...

happy weekend to all you sweet peeps in blogland!

take me out to the ball game...

source: polyvore

hot dang, i am going to a BRAVES BASEBALL GAME tomorrow! i used to go all the time when i was a little girl, and i loved me some night games. my braves baseball knowledge from the early 90s is unstoppable. after that... not so much. but i hear we got a young stunner named jason heyward; bobby cox is retiring this year; and currently we are number one in our division. we're going with friends and i hope to drink some blue moon and eat some peanuts. maybe do the tomahawk chop and catch a foul ball. and hopefully not sweat to death. fingers crossed.

the peach state...

georgia, oh georgia. i have so many places i want to visit! my sweet momma-in-law found a whole magazine of georgia site-seeing and delicious tourist-stops! old grain mills, georgia gem mines, margaret mitchell house, tullie smith house, swan house, jimmy carter's old stompin' grounds, foxfire museums, whistlestop cafes, tallulah gorge and swimming holes, mayfield dairy farms, i keep batting my eyes at my husband, and i think he is slowly warming up to the idea of hittin' the peach highways and back roads. he's even taking me berry picking this weekend! we were going last weekend, but he had too much studying to do.

oh, did i mention he is taking the georgia bar exam in a few weeks??? grief. too bad you can't just pass it in one state and have it count for all. law is tricky stuff, so i hear.

old glory...

there was cake...

and fireworks on the water...

and reading and sunning and swimming and boating...
and blue ridge mountains...

and river tubing...

and sparklers. and barbecue. and straw hats and red lipstick.and kountry kitchens. and junkin'. and marching band music. and all the other glorious things that make me proud to be an american. happy birthday america, thanks for having me.

on the road again...

i keep telling myself this is the summer where i learn how to drive. and i'm terrified. i love being in cars. i love road trips. i love old cars and stretches of fields. and driving through winding roads and hillsides dotted with old barns and cows. i love driving with the windows down blasting doo wop. and hip hop. and honky tonk. but i'm so scared of being behind the wheel. think good thoughts for me, i think this week i may attempt to be 16 again. give me dirt roads and parking lots. and a lot of courage.

a little preview...

just a few bitty snippets of projects i've been collaborating on. flowers by amy osaba.

summer solstice...

this summer 2010 i am grateful for...

1. sitting outside on quilts. preferably in a sweet, cotton day dress.

2. streamers in trees, and when the wind rushes through them.

3. old, southern, delapidated barns caving in on themselves.

4. playing with flowers. in a car. on a ladder. in an arbor. in a field. in the rain. on the side of the road. in a box with a fox. here and there and everywhere

5. drinking delicious wine from north georgia vineyards after a hard days work.

6. long weekends at the lake with my husband and his family.

7. ridiculously campy, road trip pit-stops(preferably in a penske truck).

this summer is starting off to be one of my favorites yet. even though it is unbearably, criminally, sweat-stinging into-your-eyes, sweltering, no relief-kind of hot this summer. which really is a better excuse to reach for that second glass of (semi)sweet tea.

picture this...

today i am grateful for...

attending my first atlanta estate sale! ooh la la looky at the loot!

i can't resist piles and piles of old photographs. this was the first time that i found atlanta families.

looking at the names of the atlanta photography companies of yore. kuhn and gardner? really?! attention, calling john g. and paige to the aisle of forgotten ancestral pictures!

the pileup of colors are pretty scrumptious too.

these gals knew how to dress back in the day! and their updos rock my socks off. as soon as this mop of mine grows long again-just you wait!

the backs of the photos had the names written down, and some had affectionate little sayings.

and i managed to scrounge up some more decrepit paintings to add to my future gallery wall.

methinks i might have a new addiction.

glory to ole georgia...

today i am grateful for...

newly acquired, family-owned vintage UGA gear, courtesy of pop(ed's grandfather). we've decided to turn the main bathroom into the total manly man WC. we even have a knowshon moreno painting that i have to um, work around.

i don't know if y'all know this, but college football really is not a sport in the south. it is a religion. people even have to plan their weddings around football season. no joke. glory, glory to ole georgia.

sweet georgia brown...

oh georgia, girl, you have been a warm welcome and an old sweet song since we came home. i feel like i am being re-acquainted with a long lost friend.

i have been enjoying lots of nature walks with my mother-in-law, husband and my mother around all the lovely little streets. folks smile and wave as we stroll on by, even if they have never seen us before. we've been greeted with warm air and some nice thunderstorms too.

we came back just in time to catch the last gasp of the dogwoods.

we don't have cherry blossoms in these here parts, but we do have some mighty fine azaleas.

today we went to ed's grandfather's house and devoured our fair share of tangy pulled pork, salty collard greens, and buttermilk biscuits. and of course, sweet tea and peach cobbler. pop even let me play in his basement and "relieve" him of some old, rusty hardware hooks, nails, burlap and the like.

this old medicine jar made its way home with us as well.

tomorrow my mother is going to teach me about gardening. she even already potted a little chamomile for me. i hope her green thumb is part of my genetic makeup. we shall see...

i must say, it feels pretty good to be a georgia peach again.