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Awesome sunset.

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Morning in the field: schwabacher's landing.

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Great day for a walk in JH.

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Love fall days in JH.

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My view today from a little bike ride.

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Plum Preserves

I have a feeling this wonderful recipe that i'm about to write about really belongs on a different blog, but since I only have "photography" related blogs for now, this seems to be the right place for it.  I have many plums sitting around the house about to "expire" and I didn't want to throw any of them out, so I decided to try and make plum preserves. I cook all the time and have come up with a great recipe book on my own, so I thought I'd share how I made this:
You will need:
About 12 Medium-Large Plums, washed, roughly chopped
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
sprinkle of flour (if needed for consistency)

Choose very ripe plums!

Roughly chop and place in a large simmering pan

Add all ingredients and stir

Simmer for an 1 or so until the consistency you desire is reached. (Add flour to thicken if necessary)

Add to canning jars!

Place cans in a water bath and boil until seal pops!

Serve on a baguette, toast, PB &J or however you like your jam.  It's delicious!  Enjoy.

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After the storm rolled through JH this morning, it turned out to be a beautiful day... here is the swan preserve!

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Headed to the other side and found this.  Now there's a thunderstorm, but at least it was nice before!

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I guess the one positive thing about wildfires is the sunset!

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I miss seeing the mountains! This smoke is getting ridiculous.

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Still too smoky to see the mountains in the valley, but a beautiful fall day nonetheless.

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Had a visitor today along with her calf and a huge male moose!  It's too smoky to see any of the mountains.

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Lone dandelion. Never thought we'd still have them in the backyard after it dipped below 25 degrees F!

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Woohoo, made it to 300 days! Sun peeking through the storm/fire clouds.  Hard day to breathe in the valley.

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Beautiful view today.

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Nice day in JH.

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Smoke was crazy today- here's its slowly creeping up the valley.

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Still smoky in JH. My lungs hurt.

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Fall has arrived in JH.

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Lovely day at work... behind me is a massive wildfire however.

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Fire sunrise.

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Left NY with a #tornado across from the airport, arrived in WY with a #wildfire encroaching my backyard.  This is in between.

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Beautiful day.

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Tree covered day.

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Stormy day back in CT.

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A nice view.

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Sun's setting on a beautiful day. Happy Labor Day!

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Early evening sky.

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Early morning calm after last night's thunderstorms!  I got to 200 followers today on Instagram- thanks for all the follows and likes!

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