Summer In A Jar T-Shirt Color:Sport Grey and the same cheerful crisis

and the same cheerful crisis returns on schedule

The tomatoes ripen all at once

The tools feel ready

The scattering of tiny hearts acknowledges the quiet affection woven into the scene

The central subject—volunteer tomato—is rendered with the familiar pride

Summer In A Jar T-Shirt Color:Sport Grey and the same cheerful crisisFor gardeners who can't bear to let August end without capturing it. There is a particular satisfaction in a shelf lined with jars, each one holding a little heat from a summer that has already passed. The tomatoes came in faster than anyone could eat them, so they went into the pot, then into glass, then into the pantry. Come January, a single jar tastes like July. The old mason jar and the vine ripe romas say it plainly: the season, preserved.