Garden Babies

I'm sure most of those who read this blog know of our hearts desire to have a child. A baby! Well, this summer our garden seems to be a stand in for our future life as parents.  I know the parallel is a bit thin but I really do love to walk or bike over to our garden almost every day just to check up in it and water and weed and see how my little ones are growing and changing.  I'm shocked at how much joy I've experienced through our garden this summer.  I also have a little herb box on our back porch where I have some herbs that I'm proud to say i started from seed.  They're still not quite big enough where I can use them for cooking but almost.

We finally planted the other half of our vegetable garden with summer plants like tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers. Here are some of the latest baby pics of all the little veggie plants.

Above is our "square foot gardening" section.  The kale is getting big and the red lettuce and spinach are finally harvest ready.

the summer veggies are on this side, hopefully they're not too close together. I've been told cucumbers can cross polenate or something so hopefully we don't get cucumbery peppers. 

First "red" pepper!!

Cucumbers all lined up ready to climb our trellis structure. 

first tiny tomatoes!

Rainbow chard.  Too pretty to pick! (The bunnies don't agree)

There's Peter Rabbit!  So cute and SO not afraid to eat all your lettuce :)

Memorial Day (cont.)

So, my Memorial Day began with a 90 minute restorative yoga class!!!  There were only 5 of us so I got lots of direction and I also pushed myself. Ouch!! But, I loved it!!  The theme was transition so we did lots of twisting and curving to focus on moving toward change and accepting it.  Twisting is just not my thing!  

That evening we went over to our friends Amber and Garret for an evening of things yummy and/or Italian. We started with a wine tasting which was really just a test for garret to see if he could distinguish different Sauvignon Blancs from 3 different regions.  He guessed wrong but we learned SO much from him as he verbalized his thought process for his choices.  He wants to be a sommelier.  Jonathan wants to take the course with him. 

Next was mushroom risotto, slow roasted pork belly, a Caesar salad and roasted fennel.  A & G put on an amazing spread.  

Finally we all rather drowsily sat down to watch the classic film A Room with a View, a British film with Pucchini sound track and amazing scenes in beautiful Florence, Italy.  Romantic and hilarious and cheeky all at once!! 

I worked long days on Saturday and Sunday so making the most of Monday was certainly my goal and it was a glorious day!

Happy memorial day!

I'm spending the morning working on a grant revision (deadline is July, which is frighteningly soon)...then off to have the rest of the day off with Jill and our friends Garret and Amber.

In the meantime, last week's New Yorker caption is here:

New Yorker caption contest

The New Yorker magazine has a weekly caption contest in which readers can suggest captions for cartoons. Inspired by my friend Jamie I've taken to entering from time to time - here's this week's entry.

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