[gardening] Lavender

I took down my dried lavender and put together little sachets:

The dining room smells so nice when I'm working on this.

I picked over some of the buds to remove all impurities (stems, chaff, etc) so that I could use some for cooking:

I made lemon lavender cookies that are the bomb. Like, one of the best cookies I've ever eaten in my life. I've got to try the recipe once more (ugh- picking over lavender buds is the most tedious thing in the world) to get it pretty. This will have to be added to my Christmas cookies repertoire.