Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Hello Summer!

Once in a great while one of those perfect summer evenings comes along.  This year it just happened to be the "first" summer evening after we kicked off the season with Memorial Day weekend.  I made dinner and was able to use some of the first produce from our garden-- parsley sprigs for our salmon patties and a Swiss chard salad.  There is just a certain pride about eating something you grew even if it is just a sprig of parsley.  I then headed out to enjoy such a perfect evening on a bike ride.  (Arthur had a somewhat miserable evening in the basement watch the Spurs lose to Oklahoma City and was beginning to develop conspiracy theories about the series being unjustly prolonged to generate money for large corporations.)  The temperature that evening was perfect and there was no wind (this was probably my favorite part).  The cottonwood trees are shedding poofs of cotton that just kind of hang suspended in the air making it seem as if gravity or time has slowed down or even stopped.  On my bike ride around town I ran into a few of the high school girls I mentored and chatted with them for  little bit.  I then continued on past the crowds at the baseball diamond cheering on kids partaking in America's favorite pasttime.  There were a smattering of people walking home from the swimming pool that just opened for the season.  The drone of lawn mowers was in the air all over town along with the smells of fresh grass and people grilling.  Everything is so green following the recent rain we got and everything is in bloom-- roses, iris, and peonies all across town.  I would like to say we topped off the evening with strawberry shortcake but instead we had a delightful apple crisp that has been in our freezer since the fall-- still wonderfully tasty.  Just one of those perfect evenings you want to replay over and over.  Omnia Vincit Amor.

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