Feasting on Summer!

South Garden

“Has your house ever been on the Garden Tour?” our visitor asked.  We were standing on the south porch with a riot of daisies and climbing roses and nasturtiums and I-don’t-know-what-all smiling at us in the sunshine.

“No,” I laughed.  “We’ve never been asked.”  I didn’t offer to take her around to the rest of the yard so she could see for herself that we could never qualify – at least not in the middle of summer.  ‘The Merrie Month of May’ might be another story.  Then, many of our rhododendrons are in bloom and there is actually some ‘garden’ to our yard – if you know what I mean.  In July… not much happening except in that southwest corner.  And that, in truth, is a feast for the eyes.

Ready for the Oven

What totallyy qualifies for summer around here, though, is Nyel’s cooking!  Even with our oven “off limits” (we are still smelling propane and waiting for the hooker-upper-people to come with their testing equipment), Chef Nyel manages to pull it all together.

Earlier this week:  gazpacho!  Yum!  Last night: tomato pie baked in my mother’s old roaster oven.  “Never get rid of anything that might prove useful someday” is Nyel’s motto.  Instead of making me eat crow for all my years of asking “Can’t we recycle that?” he served up the most delicious tomato pie ever!  What a guy!  What a feast!  What a summer!

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