Mikki's Visit

When a friend...a very, very good friend from my youth came for a visit. It was a most happy occasion. It was a time to catch up on everything that happened from the time we last saw each other. A time to know how much we've changed and how much we've stayed the same... to know what our new thoughts and ideas are, dreams and plans or simply what our opinions of things, even random things.


Sharing a simple but beautiful meal with a friend is precious. You look back down the road and reminisce the time you made special and you realize how fun and delightful it was. Things come to mind: the beautiful weather, the color of sunshine, the  leisurely dragging of  time on this lazy day, the small and long talks and  the sound and echoes of laughter.

Setting a cheerful table to complement our  happy mood. Lots of yellows and blues and reds and orange.
What a blessing to enjoy all these hues with our eyes that see.

There is nothing  better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. ---Linda Grayson

Life is an awful ugly place to not have a best friend. ---Sarah Dessen

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  ---Aristotle

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.

Out  beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
    ---Rumi

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover someone else believes in you and is willing to  trust you with a friendship.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

No friendship is an accident. ---O. Henry

Milkweed Blossoms

Delicious boiled, buttered and salted.

Sumac and Blackberries

Foraging Sumac and  Blackberries on our way home from browsing the flea markets
in PA. The blackberries I made into syrup for cold summer drinks and the sumac I soaked in  water for the next day's drink.

Sunset Dinner Alfresco

Lounging. That's what we do best, especially in the summer when we are "rich with sunny hours and summer days." Reading, yapping, munching on nuts and berries, listening to music and taking catnaps.

The good thing about our lunch picnic was that we had leftovers which we easily augmented with some salad and boiled eggs accompanied by a bottle of rose' for dinner.

We brought our leftovers from lunch to the rooftop of the other building and set to enjoy dinner celebrating the sunset. (Mesclun salad with boiled eggs, cherries and daylily buds)

(of course the photographer is always the missing person in picture...:-)

The food, although beautiful, this time took the backstage and allowed the sun and the skies to take center stage. We ate and talked quietly enjoying each other's company as the sun lazily slid down the skies and sent out a burst of colors for us to be in awe of. From hereon starts the sky show and while you appreciate the burst of  colors I shall clip my pie-hole shut. Enjoy...