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This day couldn't have been planned more perfectly. Drinks on the balcony. A boy in French cuffs. A girl in a favorite white dress. Reedy docks, dewy grass, chocolate cake, happy faces. Such great memories of my brother's wedding day! And there we sat, beneath a Campari Orange and the sun came down on contagious laughter and Bulgarian dances. Congratulations guys!
Here's a shot from about a month ago of my very first successful forray into gardening! And I finally tasted the fruits of my labor this morning, with a single, painstakingly plump and very tiny yellow cherry tomato! It is amazing how gardening brings out your nurturing gene - how I've spent each morning of the last three months traipsing out into the driveway with my apple juice carton of water for the budding plants only to find that many of the leaves need pruning and there are no budding fruits or vegetables on each scrawny little limb. Now I know everyone this season is talking about how the early summer rains killed any hope of successful tomatoes, but when I see my neighbor's gangly vines tantalizingly dangling full-grown Heirloom and plum tomatoes shadowing my little knee-high plants, I have to wonder... But today was validation that it's all been worth the effort. And maybe my next year my little guys will have their day in the sun.
I am amazed to discover how difficult it is to get wheat to put in a flower arrangement! Our florist for the wedding has told me that it will cost over a HUNDRED dollars to add wheat into the mix... meanwhile I have been thinking it would be the most natural, inexpensive filler fo fill out our various wedding bouquets! Of course, now that I know how difficult it is to get, I'm seeing it just about everywhere, springing up in garden arrangements and as a weed outside our local pizza dive. Is it trashy to pick flowers and fill your own arrangement?