It is most definitely summer!

  There in the foreground are radishes, and up the row from them, lettuce, and more radishes.

We  had salad from our own garden, with the last of the CSA spinach tonight. We finished the meal with the first strawberry shortcake of the season! Sorry, no photo. I was too busy baking the shortcake and sniffing the berries as they macerated in sugar. Does anything smell more heavenly than fresh strawberries!

I picked these, one quart only, on my way home from errands.

Summer isn't the only thing to be thankful for this week.

We have a date and a site for the League of Vermont Writer's Conference--July 23-25, 2010, at beautiful Mt. Snow, Vermont.  Don't ask me who is going to speak--that's the next project, something I hope to have nailed down by the end of July. We do know we're going to have pitch sessions with agents, workshops, inspiring keynotes, and on Sunday morning, some sessions devoted to the business of writing. Details are still being worked out.

 I am, by the way, the conference chair, but I'm working with a great committee.

Revisions on my short story are nearly complete. I need to check a couple more things tomorrow and then I'll be sending it off.

Finally, an encore for the green, growing season:

  This is something called "Kitchen Sink Mix" from Pinetree Seeds in Maine. This photo was taken the day before I snipped about a third of the greens for a microgreens and hard-boiled egg salad. This pot will last the rest of the week, and there's another one right behind it:

  The planter is an old refrigerator drawer, found in the attic during The Great Sorting. That is a pea vine trailing out of it. The leaves are yummy!