Life is a bowl full of…

Sour Cherries !

bowl full of cherries

In Mima’s honor, Finnegan and I sat on the quiet sunny summer morning porch and carefully pitted three boxes of sour cherries into Saren’s beautiful bowl… enough for two pies…one for us and one with a Z for Zola and Zack…and Zue.

pies

A few years ago this week I was on pins and needles waiting for the orchard to say it was ok to pick the sour cherries as I was scrambling to include a painting of Mima’s Sour Cherry Pie  for the recipe series  in the Granary show that July.

Mima's-Sour-Cherry-Pie

The pressure is off this year…all the paintings that can be done are done…and it was almost a zen like meditation to have a whole hour to do nothing this morning but sit and pit.

Now on to the painter’s notes…

and maybe just a tiny pieced of pie.