I think this is a gorgeous photo of Beatrix Potter’s Castle Cottage. Love the gardens!
In reading some of her letters (I am a fan of hers) I came across a mention of the time when she and her husband William Heelis were renovating Castle Cottage in December 1913:
“I am hoping to get settled in the Castle Cottage soon- it has been such an awful mess. The new rooms are nothing like built yet, & the old part has been all upset with breaking doors in the wall & taking out partitions
Those front rooms, where you & Augusta slept are one long room now & the staircase is altered, & we are going to have a bathroom- in the course of time- I think workmen are very slow.”
I guess some things never change!
We were busy the other day harvesting from our veggie gardens, the garlic is ready, loads of zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, beets, beans, peas, tomatoes, hot peppers… sharing bags of veggies with everyone we can think of!
Mmmm! Fresh from our family garden today…great idea for serving the beets: olive oil, rosemary and fresh garlic cooked together (roasted with the beets is best, but you can cook the garlic, rosemary in olive oil in a pan then toss with the beets). Smells divine, tastes delicious!
A surprise gift from a very special client. This lady gave me a boxful of beautiful old canning jars. We helped her and her husband sell their family hobby farm and she wanted to give them to me because we once compared notes on making jams and pickles 
. I washed them up- some have a wonderful blue or green tint. Looked up these types of jars on the Internet and they appear to be from the early 1900’s. They are Gem and Crown jars. 