3rd day of birthday celebration. we had a party together with a friend, alex, who lives in scharbeutz, at the baltic sea. dear friends, lots of talks & fun, yummy treats. in her garden i picked red, black and white currants … & plenty of wild edibles (found something new: borage … so delicious, i could not stop eating it! later that day someone told me borage is known to be good to calm & strengthen when feeling stressed. maybe this is why i like it so much?!? anyway, my body seems to need it. ).

alex' fantastic strawberry tart

my humble contribution for the buffet

although it was a bit chilly & windy we went to the beach … to cold for most of us to take a bath (not for all of us: m. actually had fun in the water!) we enjoyed being creative & playing in the sand

… second day of celebration

yesterday – my birthday – i simply enjoyed life: every minute of the day, the congratulations, letters, emails, sms, calls, presents … so many wonderful things happened.

today we were celebrating with some of my family. my mom brought beautiful roses to me:

nice afternoon, but somehow … strange. hm. maybe i’ll write about this later…

wanna see what we had to eat?

strawberry tartlets with whipped cream

apple pie

summer! my favourite season!

first hollyhocks blowing

beautiful and yummy

wild strawberries & raspberries

today we had a good time at gut wulksfelde, enjoying the sun & eating strawberries & greens. we brought home strawberries, orache, comfrey, stinging nettles & mugwort.

cockaigne ... abundant sunripened cherries ... can't think of anything more delicious!

i really enjoyed this weekend: sun, friendship, talks, inspiration …

… do i feel embarrassed now? oh no, why should i! thank you, sandra & steffi, for making my day

thanks to ramona‘s mom for this great & yummy surprise!

greens fresh out of the garden

cucumber, carrots, peas, kohlrabi (m. loves it! and it’s the lilac one – did she know it’s m.’s favourite color?) & bishop’s weed, orache, chickweed

yes it’s true – we picked 12 kg strawberries at gut wulksfelde last saturday! i just couldn’t stop … so yummy! but thanks to the rain last week they also were very ripe & soft so we had to eat (or process) them soon. i had strawberries for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner & in between. mixed several glasses with strawberry sauce. made a wonderful strawberry cake for a picnic on sunday:

and strawberry wafers (with buckwheat):

now they’re all gone … & i’m looking forward to picking strawberries again next week

i just registered for the raw mom summit … sounds interesting, interviews with lots of exciting women & men.

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