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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