Light posting - I'm canning!

Whew! I finished most of the jams and jellies, and have lots of variations, including Roadside Crabapple and Wild Grape jam, Raspberry and Wild Blueberry, Crabapple Lemon Thyme Jelly, and Mint Jalapeno (my jalapeno peppers were late this year, but they're nice and hot now). I like to give tiny jars of jelly for holiday presents, and they'd make great wedding table favors!
Now I'm doing pickles, and dilled green beans - I've got wild grape leaves from an abandoned farm to keep the pickles crisp (instead of using alum). Today was salsa day, as the Roma tomatoes need to be canned, and my red peppers are finally ready. I roasted lots of garlic to put in the tomato sauces.
Here is my grand-daughter, disappearing into the tomatoes. I have two small plots I work on at family houses (I don't have a backyard in my apt), and I am the volunteer gardener at a historic site, where I experiment. This year I've been harvesting lots of wild things - fruits and berries and knobbly apples from abandoned wayside trees - I made "Fallen Apple Jam", which sounds a bit biblical, eh?
I'll get back to wedding posting shortly - just catching the last rays of fall and putting stuff in jars this week...