More beans

We have a huge quantity of various varieties of bean to blanche and freeze. These ones, perhaps a little disappointingly, turn green in the process. On a more metaphorical level, one wonders what colours will emerge following the generous wave of hot water heading this direction, sometime soon.

Wood was stacked in the basement and acacias were planted in the fading rays of the sunset.

I noticed that some tins of Portuguese sardines which I bought last week are now suddenly about 20 percent more expensive.