The sun's going down and I'm out in the garden with my adorable husband and the puppies, picking raspberries, thinning the beets and watering the summer garden.
Then when picking stray weeds I glimpsed something that had changed greatly in the week I was away.
The first cherries are ripe!
Hurrah! Into the house for the white ceramic bowls. Let the celebration begin... Time to call the neighbors, pull out the stepladder and pluck the first of the jewel-like fruit, then into the kitchen for a cherry lemonade toast.
You can't help but love life's little rituals when they're as sweet as this.
