The Joys of Summer
June 30, 2009 by Trish
Filed under Happenings, blog, family
Mouth watering and delicious
Yesterday I spent most of the day nursing a lingering migraine. Spending the day in a dark room with my eyes shut was not my idea of a good time, but it was necessary. Even though my headache was not gone by evening I was itching to get out of the house for even a few minutes, so I went to the store to pick up a couple of essentials, then we stopped as a family at the Rita’s Italian Ice stand. I wish I had brought my camera, because by the time we were done, BoyZilla was dripping in sticky grape and was a perfect vision of what summer is all about. I do confess that for me it was a chocolate custard, but next time I will get a lemon-cherry combo ice. Yes, I am already hoping for a next time, though I know that I cannot expect that any other trip this summer will be on an evening as lovely as last night. We’ve been having warm weather with no humidity this week, and that is truly a rare event worth celebrating.
Ok, it’s time for work! At least it’s a short week.
I have been LOVING the weather up here! And I’m so looking forward to those great summer fruits. They didn’t exactly grow locally in south Texas. I even took a picture of a corn field during my TwitPic journey north because I’m looking forward to that great corn on the cob so much!
There’s nothing like locally grown summer produce. Look at today’s entry on my blog to see the strawberries I picked out of the garden this evening. Sweet as sugar!
I have a friend who refuses to buy a “grocery store” tomato, those shaved tennis balls someone paints a light pinkish-red and passes off as a living/growing thing. He uses canned tomatoes in his salads. I think, long ago and far away, it was the difference between shipped tomatoes and vine-ripened tomatoes that alerted me to the influence of factory farms on our foods.
My parents were fabulous gardeners. Sadly I did not inherit that gene, but I do know how to find the local farmer’s market.