Peach fever

"We catch it. It invades our logic, overriding rational thought, disrupting our best-laid plans. It spreads and settles in our psyche, our emotions swell, the heart races. We call it peach fever, a love of our work and the land that burdens us with a sense of responsibility and caring. Peach fever curses us, especially when weather disasters challenge our spirit and bad prices inject a cold reality into our love affair. Peach fever can destroy and transform and lives on our farm throughout the year."

David Mas Masumoto in "The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm"

Blue on blue

It is blueberry and peach sour cream cobbler, courtesy of Nigel Slater and "The Kitchen Diaries." It is the epitome of summer.