Hello and Good Morning,
Dawn is breaking, but I think we are in for a bit of a rainy day. After the humidity kind of lessened the other day, it now feels as though it is back (with a vengeance!).
Yesterday morning, before lunch but after Colin's meeting, we walked out front with Iris to check on one of the front beds. Lo and behold! A tigridia was blooming. Gorgeous!
Colin planted a number of tigridia bulbs the other year and he may have had one or two blooms in the past, but deer love these flowers. I'll be surprised if this is still visible when I go over this morning. This year a number of native pollinator plants were put in this bed. Some are surviving, but there are noticeable "chomps" here and there.
Last night I had enough energy after dinner (and a load of towels washed) to make a coffee cake!
I used This Recipe for a blueberry buttermilk coffee cake. (Note: I did not have buttermilk, so I did the white vinegar added to milk thing and I used fresh blueberries rather than frozen.)
Back in the day (in my late teens/early twenties I was making coffee cakes all the time. I used my Mom's Betty Crocker cookbook and they were always good. I like coffee cakes because they are easy and fast to make and usually very tasty. Once this had cooled, I cut it into eight pieces. (A little piece did break off, so I HAD to taste it - YUM!!!). Half of the cake is going over to C&M's today. This is one cake I will make again...maybe even with raspberries for a change!
Here's hoping your Thursday finds you having something tasty!
That coffee cake looks delicious! I have some frozen blueberries and I think I am going to make that recipe as well! Thank you! And I hear you about deer chomping... sigh.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with tigridia but it sounds like the deer certainly are! I have put blueberries on my list because that coffee cake sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteThat tigridia is so pretty! I've never heard of that one! Love it when I learn about a new plant!
ReplyDeleteFlowers AND cake? It's a stellar day!
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