going to country...

Gonna eat a lot of PEACHES!

Despite the 100 degree high humidity weather, we made our annual foray up into the mountains of VA for some pick-your-own fun. Hollins Farm in Delaplane has an amazing orchard of peaches, both white and yellow, as well as other fruits, veggies, and farm fresh products. You can also get farm-raised beef from them, which they sell in bulk. Still trying to get enough people together to one day make a purchase from them! Smallest denomination is something like a quarter of a whole cow, which is something like 100 pounds of beef...err......

Anyway, our family members are all loyal white peach eaters so we were after the lovely white lady peaches, that have this amazing peachy floral aroma. We have this kinda crazy gene in our family that when we see fruit on trees, we start making involuntary grabby motions with our hands and foaming at the mouth. And then once we start pickin', we don't stop until we're forcibly put into a straight-jacket, blind-folded and removed from the farm quickly and efficiently. I kid you not.

So we picked a lot of peaches.

And I do mean a lot of peaches.

These photos still don't do our craziness full justice. We have something on the order of 150+ peaches chilling in our house right now. Did I also mention we're going back next weekend? Uh huh. Peach season is far from over.

We also got some beautiful and ridiculously sweet Japanese shiro plums.

And I totally went batshiz for these BLACKBERRIES!!! Just gawjuss!

Have you ever seen blackberry blossoms?

I'm in there somewhere.

Can't contain the crazy.

Yeah we got quite a bit of these too.

But wait, there's more! As if we'd pass up the opportunity to get all the super fresh produce we can. Hello, my favorite members of the solanaceae family!

Seriously, fruit have got to be some of the most beautiful things on this planet.

Last, but definitely not least, we got two of these babies. Overgrown babies. Ignore my messy house.

So, in conclusion, we have fruits and veggies coming out of our ears. If I've turned into a rabbit the next time you see me, please give me a loving home. If this is impossible, just promise me you'll use me to make the friggin most delicious batch of lapin a la cocotte known to mankind.

Until next time! Got a favorite recipe involving peaches or zucchini? Gimme a hollah!