Dim Sum Sunday - South of the Border

For this week's Dim Sum Sunday - South of the Border, we decided to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant Casa Tina's.

It's a cool, kid friendly place to eat, with lots of food to choose from.

I ordered the Mole Poblano, which is my favorite.

A yummy combination of chocolate and chilies. Slightly sweet with just a little bit of spice.

My feel good comfort food.

Arroz Cabezon

Hubs went with the Arroz Cabezon. A mix of pork and chicken in pibil sauce, with guacamole and pickled red onions on the side.

Love the artwork!

Thanks again Shamu for hosting another fun Dim Sum Sunday!

New Porch Birds

So cute!

Have a good weekend friends. : )

Wordless Wednesday: Around the Yard

Remembering Dad

May 25, 1940 - June 18, 2002

Wordless Wednesday - Sunday Mornings

Dim Sum Sunday- How does your garden grow?

My friend Shamu hosts a food meme on Sundays called, Dim Sum Sunday. The idea is to use the weekly theme when coming up with Sunday's dinner recipe. It doesn't have to be yours, and you don't even have to cook it yourself! It just needs to fit the weekly theme. And this week's is, How Does Your Garden Grow?

Since our garden is growing well, we've had a bounty of tomatoes and zucchini (not to mention, more eggs than we know what to do with) that were just begging to be cooked. A quick search and we found this recipe for a easy zucchini, tomato, and cheese tart to use for our Sunday dinner.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!

Thanks Shamu for inviting me to join in the fun!

Pastels and a Poem

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky and their amazing life.

Rachel Carson

We Have Veggies!

An unknown yellow tomato.

I swear, I'm gonna label all my seeds trays next time!

Purple Beauty Sweet Pepper.

Not a veggie. :)


Woohoo! Our first cucumber and squash!


Another unknown tomato.

Are you sensing a theme here?


Not a veggie either.


Black Cherry Tomato.

Have a great weekend friends! :)

Woohoo! Got New Leg Braces Today!

Aren't they just the cutest?!

Any Good Rabbit Recipes?

This is all that is left of 50 eggplants and peppers.

The culprit.

*&$#% rabbit! GRRRR!

Wordless Wednesday: Around the Pond

The Front Yard Garden

I am loving the little front yard garden right now! The zinnias that I grew from seed are taking off, and the tomatoes, zucchini, and peppers are thriving and setting fruit. Which I'm not quite sure what to make of it. No viruses, no bugs, no mildew, no blossom end rot. Maybe it's a sign from the veggie gods that Hubs needs to plow the front yard and make it one big vegetable garden. I can just picture "the look" I'd get for that suggestion. ;)

So friends, what are your favorite recipes using summer vegetables?

Happy Earth Day

Ballerina Rose

Wild Petunia

Blackberry


All in a Day

A day is a perfect piece of time
to live a life, to plant a seed,
to watch the sun go by.


A day starts early, work to do,
beneath a brand-new sky.

A day brings hope and kindness, too...
a day is all its own.


You can make a wish,
and start again,
you can find your way back home.


Every bird and every tree
and every living thing
loves the promise in a day,
loves what it can bring.


There is a faith in morningtime,
there is belief in noon.

Evening will come whispering and shine a bright round moon.

A day can change everything,
given half a chance.


Rain could show up at your door
and teach you how to dance.


The past is sailing off to sea,
the future's fast asleep.


A day is all you have to be,
it's all you get to keep.


Underneath that great big sky
the earth is all a -spin.


This day will soon be over
and it won't come back again.


So live it well, make it count,
fill it up with you.

The day's all yours, it's waiting now...
See what you can do.



Written by Cynthia Rylant

New Beginings

Hanging upside down, they dry out and pump blood into their new wings.

Doesn't take long and they're ready.

Take off!

It always seems so magical, watching them go from tiny eggs to beautiful butterflies.

Wordless Wednesday: Dolphins!

Photo by Elizabeth