Thank you so much for all of this beautiful information! My peach pit was calling to me today and now I have so much more information. Have a blessed week 🙂

Thank you so much, lovely Vicki. You are such a wonderfully kind and supportive person.

Thank you for sharing about those aspects of your childhood. It must have been a very special experience to grow up in the country with a sizable orchard and garden right on your property. While I can’t claim to have done the same, we did have fruits in some of our yards over the years and frequently had access to others in the general area – as well as friends/relatives/neighbours/etc who were keen to offload the excess from their harvest on my family. We were very grateful for this and usually canned or made jam from the abundance of fruit that came our way during the summer months.

Cherry jam is a thing of taste bud dazzling pleasure. To this day it firmly remains amongst my very favourite jams (and syrups). Just thinking about biting into some great cherry jam now makes my head swoon with delight. Yum-yum!

Thank you again, my dear friend. May you have a sunny, safe and very sweet remainder of July.

♥ Autumn

Hi sweet Anesha, you’re wholeheartedly welcome. It’s a pleasure to visit your blog and be inspired by your vibrant, cheerful and entirely charming creations.

A huge thank you in turn for visiting + engaging with my blog as well. I appreciate it to no end.

Big time! It’s often hard to beat fruit picked straight from the tree (or bush/vine). The joy and taste bud pleasures of doing ranks right up there as one of my most beloved summertime activities.

Cherries and peaches are in full swing here now, ditto for apricots and nectaries. Plums are just starting to spring to life once more, and soon enough the incredible apples and pears of this region will be plentiful again as well. The latter two aren’t stone fruits, of course, but they are fabulously delicious all the same and really speak of the transition from summer into fall’s waiting arms.

Thank you again, my friend. May you have a sunny, fantastic rest of the season!

♥ Autumn

You’re awesomely kind and supportive, Shelia. Thank you deeply.

How fantastic that some of this year’s Okanagan cherry crop is reaching you on the Island. We’ve been delighting in them as well (big time!). I’ve been especially pleased to find some of the inky black-burgundy local cherries, as they’re my absolute favourite variety of this beloved summertime classic.

So true about the size that more peaches used to grow to. I well remember those softball-sized gems and how one was almost a whole meal unto itself (at least when we were kids). I like to think that some people, be they home gardeners or commercial orchardists, still produce fruit that hefty, though haven’t spotted any peaches quite that large in a good while now. If and when I do once more, I will think of you, my lovely friend.

Thank you again so much. I truly love writing good sized posts and am bolstered to keep doing so all the more by positive, encouraging feedback like yours.

Sunny hugs & sweet-as-peaches wishes for late July,
♥ Autumn

Hello dear Ann, you are such a wonderfully kind and supportive person. Thank you very much for your terrific comment. While it’s true that posts like this do generally take some time to research, take (or find) images for, and write, the process is one that I love immensely and derive so many positives from. (Especially the thought that hopefully others will enjoy and find what I share here useful.)

Aww! What a special, awesome connection to have with peaches. It’s beautiful that you have a childhood photo of yourself savouring a juicy peach. For an activity that was so integral to my youth, I’m surprised, come to think of it, that I can’t recall that being captured on film back in the day (though it very well may have been – my mom adored few things more than snapping pics of her kids when we were growing up).

I thoroughly enjoyed your commend and am touched that you shared that special stone fruit memory here.

Big hugs & wishes for summer days that are sweeter than even the juiciest peach!

♥ Autumn

Hi Ally, thank you very much for your comment. I’m touched to know that I introduced you to this term for one of summer’s most iconic and delicious groups of fruit.

Cherries are phenomenal! I’m with you there all the way. And the darker, the better in my books – though I don’t mind the paler shades one bit either. What are some of your favourite ways to put cherries to work in the kitchen?

♥ Autumn

You’re very kind, dear Anne. Thank you for your lovely comment. Fabulous choices for some of your most beloved stone fruits.

Peaches, cherries, and very early season plums are all in season here in our region of BC at the moment. I wish I could share some of each of them with you – especially the extraordinarily delicious peaches that have long helped to put this area on the agricultural map.

Wishing you a tail end of July that is even sweeter the ripest stone fruit!

♥ Autumn