Some purple things in and around our garden today …
This cosmos, which I planted earlier in the summer in a little spot between the old well in our front yard and the east wall (still to be plastered). 
Some plums we’ve been waiting to ripen on a little sapling across the road from us. Truth be told we should keep waiting: these are SOUR little bastards just now – not that Maja cares.
My new ballet flats from Tesco, 745 forints (NZ$4.06). Score! (Nice toe cleavage?)
Our ‘lawn’ is full of violets (among a cornucopia of other weeds), which are also purple, although eight months away from flowering right now.
Maja’s new (old) balance bike, from a friend who owns a bike shop in town (cheers Gyuri!)
It’s a couple of centimetres too tall still … maybe by the end of the summer it’ll be just right. The concrete mixer was very busy around here a couple of weeks ago helping us construct the new pizza oven on our terrace; but as you can see from the weeds here it’s been taking a well-earned rest recently. But Mr A has been too lazy to move it from it’s so visually charming that we like to keep it within our immediate living environment.
These grapes were a legacy of the previous owner of this house; the vine struggled up of its own accord in our front garden, so we thought ‘what the hell’ and trained it along our manky fence (this too shall pass) a little.
Maja loves ‘gapes’. Oh lord look, more weeds! I must have, um, missed those ones out the last time I did the weeding. Yeah.
Sometimes she shares with mummy.
Happy Wordless Wednesday Thursday!
Daisy
They look like damson plums – the size, the colour, the bloom on them. If so they will never get sweet for eating but are highly prized for jam ( or wine!) . The jam has a sharp flavour and is perfect with cheese.
What a lovely epiphany! THANK you Christine! I have Nigella Lawson’s ‘How to Eat’, in which she raves about damsons … I had no idea what they were and always meant to find out … And here they are literally on my doorstep! Will have to chase up a jam recipe.