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National Peach Day 2025

For the rapidly approaching end of 🌞 Summer 🔥, we have National Peach Day to sweeten the waning season.

🍑 Great 🍑

If you start with a great peach, there’s nothing you’re ever going to do that’s going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution. ~Ruth Reichl

Okay, I am totally on board for a day on peaches.

What’s not quite working for me is that it is already Pumpkin 🎃 Spice 🥤 Latte season at Starbucks.

That’s like 🎼Christmas music🎶 before Thanksgiving Day. It may bring a smile to my face, but it’s fundamentally wrong.

I mean, c’mon! It’s not even Labor Day yet.

That being said, yesterday saw the relaunch of Burger King’s Cini Minis which can only mean that while it is still both 🌞 social and meteorological Summer 🔥, we are officially embarking into 🍁🧸☕ Cozy Season ☺️🥧🍂 and I have absolutely no reservations about that.

Naturally, 🌞 Social Summer 🔥 ends on Labor Day and 🌞 Meteorological Summer 🔥 ends at the equinox on September 22nd at 14:19 Eastern Daylight Time

Something I did notice in the long-range forecasts is that there should be no more days above 81°F for the rest of 2025 in my locale.

If we can get that down to no days above 71°F for the rest of 2025 in my locale, I’ll be quite satisfied to consider 🌞 Summer 🔥 officially over.

Let’s take a look at some marvelously cozy peach recipes…

🍑 Versatility 🍑

11 Best Peach Recipes | Peaches Recipe Compilation | Well Done

Ohhhhhh, how can you go wrong with a basic peach cobbler? Add some blackberries, fuhgeddaboudit…

I’m also pretty enticed by the peach cheesecake in this video and some of the savory options they show.

Nice thing is that I live out in the sticks where we have farmstands. Fresh juicy peaches are there, ready to be bought in abundance.

It’s phenomenal to bite into a fresh peach that has ripened to the sweet spot between firm and soft.

It’s even better to saute them with cinnamon, nutmeg and butter to throw over some creamy vanilla ice cream.

It’s hard to find something cozier than a slice of peach pie and a mug of simmering milk or cocoa.

Whether you like them fresh from the tree or cheffed up into something special, any day is a great day for peaches.

🍑 Big Picture 🍑

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail. ~Pablo Picasso

You can just never tell how a piece of art will be received or perceived.

Whatever your intentions, people take away what they bring to the work.

If you can’t identify with the characters and their plights or their quips, you’re probably not going to pick up what the writer is laying down.

That is the fault of neither the writer nor the reader.

If I read a story told from the perspective of someone whose lived experience is radically different from mine, it could be an educational experience if the writer takes the time to get you into that character’s mind.

On the other hand, if I read a story told from the perspective of someone with similar enough experiences to mine or who holds to certain genre tropes, it can be a cathartic experience because I’m expecting a war story to be a war story whether I’ve been to war or not and I’m expecting a police procedural to be a police procedural whether I’ve been a cop or not.

The answer to both is not. Fortunately, I’ve never been to war and I’m not a cop, but I’ve taken the time to learn the lingo, the tropes, the genre conventions so that I can appreciate the story being told in the context that the author is telling it.

Every story is not for everyone. Some are seemingly universal, but even the most innocuous stories are dreadfully offensive to someone.

Write to your audience and let them self-select.

My audience, such as it is, has come to expect an annual Holiday Season Serial Romance with its own peculiar twist on the Hallmark RomCom formula.

To that end, I can tell you that this year’s story is 💡🎄🌟 Goodness & Lights 🌟🎄💡 and continues on in the sleepy town of Pine Hollow.

The families at the bulb of Unity Court thought their combined lights, animatronics and synchronized drones would result in a shared family trophy at last, only to lose it to an unwed mother riding a donkey out in the cold all night while her dad’s parametric speaker system and inspirational presentation wowed the judges.

While we didn’t actually meet Gary Light or his daughter in The Lights of Pine Hollow, we heard about them.

Some might be inspired to wonder what inspired Gary to subject his daughter to this spectacle. This year, we’ll find out.

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That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for toasted marshmallows…