Peach Season

I went peach picking this week in southern New Jersey. It was cool in the shade and hot in the sun with a light refreshing breeze. A perfect day for picking peaches. Click to enlarge.

The orchard was full of lovely twisted trees covered with ripe easy-to-reach fruit. 

I learned that picking peaches is much easier than picking blueberries. Click here to read about my blueberry adventure in July.

I came home with about 20 pounds of peaches.

I made peach jam that tastes like summer in a jar.

It's delicious.

And I saw this lovely orange variegated fritillary butterfly, Euptoieta claudia

... and an orange flower that looks like a harbinger of autumn.