The View - September

Warm September brings the fruit

sportsmen then begin to shoot..

Well this warm September has certainly brought the fruit to the hedgerows.  We have more brambles (blackberries) than I've ever seen and many of them are huge!  There are also rowan berries in this photo and, although not shown, more rose hips than I've seen for a long time.  

I'm fortunate that we have two roads into our farm and each has a hedgerows full of fruit. I spied these when I was taking the bins down to the end of the road to be emptied tomorrow, one of the less attractive aspects of rural living. 

Muffins are very easy to make, one bowl of wet ingredients another of dry ingredients, gently mix together and add in whatever is seasonal.  These are based on a Blueberry Muffin recipe substituting the brambles for the blueberries.

And here is The View for September.  I took this photo on the 1st September and it wasn't such a nice day, things are still pretty green and a lot of my pots are still in bloom.  I'm really pleased with the pink scabious which has bloomed all summer and is still blooming, I'm definitely getting one of those again. 

Edible - 365+1

This prompt is an easy one for me, I have so many photos of food!  These are my Choc-ful Cranberry Muffins a nice alternative to mince pies and Christmas cake.  I have a bagful in the freezer ready for Christmas visitors.

Muffin Basket

I'm going to a 50th birthday party tonight for a friend from work.  He made a couple of comments on Facebook about the Rhubarb Muffins that I made last week:  'Yum' and 'Are you bringing these in to work tomorrow?'.  As it happened I wasn't but I had frozen a few of the ones we didn't scoff, so decided that I would present him with his own personal muffin in a decorated Muffin Basket.  It's mostly cut and stick with a bit of embossing and some Stickles.  'Enjoy' stamp is Studio G and the cupcake stamp is a Papercrafts magazine freebie.