Strawberries.  Our first-ever harvest of them.  Our strawberry bed is thick with plants and full of berries.  Delicious.

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Creamy Iced Jasmine Green Tea

A wonderful drink for summer.  Delicious, refreshing and rejuvinating.

I make it up by the quart jar and keep it in my fridge, then take it with me when I'm gardening on a hot day or to church or to a family reunion.  Greta loves it too.  I keep a straw in mine to stir it.

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SUMMER HAIL

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As near Thy Cross a Garden lay,

So, as we follow in the way,

We find a garden.  Pain and loss

Were not the last words of the Cross.

Beyond the sharpness and the strife,

The Easter lily reigns in life.

And singing birds are in the trees;

Were ever singing birds like these?

O Lord, the solemn mystery

Of Cross and Garden beckons me.

Thou who didst never turn Thee back,

Keep my feet steadfast in the track.

~Amy Carmichael~

Mountain Breezes

(p. 232)