Michelle, I really love making meals with all of my own ingredients and herbs. It sometimes seems almost magical that all of these different materials and flavors came out of the dirt in my yard.

Maryanne, I've trimmed small branches like that but this year the limbs were the size of regular trees, and since the tree they fell out of belonged to the next door neighbors, they paid a guy to come take them out. Now that I know about him if I need more tree work done I'll call him. A set on Flickr of the photos from this summer. If you're a friend on Flickr you can see them. Send me a PM here at Mudcat and send me your Flickr account so I can add you as a friend if you want to see them. I can also put them up in Opera for Kat to see if you don't have a Flickr account since I have a rarely used account there.

SRS