Lawn shadows.

Last night as I lay in bed my head was spinning with a great idea for a blog post. I was literally writing it in my head. I should have gotten up there and then and written it all down because now I have no idea what the idea was. PooF! Dust to dust. Kind of like my brain. Maybe it will come back to me.

This morning it’s only 58 degrees with a chilly breeze and it feels like fall out there! It’s supposed to heat up mid-week (which I hope it does for the pool’s sake) but for now it’s blessedly cool. Yesterday we had a rainy start to the morning with a little over a quarter of an inch of rain and then a few little squalls in the afternoon. I didn’t even bother to close up the house it was so nice.

Back yard with a peek at the pool.

One day this week I am going to try and go to Skylands and see what’s blooming there with my camera and gear. I recently unearthed a macro lens that I didn’t know I had that must be over ten years old. It still works on my new Canon so I want to give it a whirl and see what I can do with it. (I was looking at a beautiful macro lens this weekend at Unique Photo.)

I am a macro girl at heart. I guess since I started out that way taking photos of flowers with a set of screw-on close-up lenses.

Anyway, I am rambling this morning. Sorry!

Here is our dinner on Sunday night: grilled Calamari salad.

It was fresh, bright and delicious. We fried the tentacle bits after dusting them with cornmeal, flour, a pinch of cayenne pepper and some salt. I had some marinara sauce I had made in the freezer, so we thawed that out and used it as a dip.

I can see many of you out there wrinkling up your noses at the crunchy tentacles, but hey, honestly you should give it a try. They are the best part!

I can’t wait for dinner tonight as we bought a big bag of fresh peas at the farmer’s market this weekend. Peas! A seasonal treat that I thought we had missed out on this year. We’re adding them to a lemon-sauced fettuccine.

Good grief, it’s too early to have food on the brain!

But maybe my brain needs food so it can remember what I was really going to blog about this morning!

Yup, I scrunched up my nose. Even tho your photography is great, I had a hard time looking at the plate of “rubber bands” and then the next photo looks like that guy is going to crawl right off the plate. No thanks!

Still envying your weather. We’ve had 90s, will have 80’s for a couple of days and then they are predicting 100. I spend most of my time in the air conditioning!

Aww, Bigsis. Darn! We were going to repeat this dinner on the first night you’re here for your visit.

No nose wrinkling here!  I absolutely adore calamari…done any way!  Love the photos…I’ve been wracking my brain for a self-portrait idea for my photo club.  Those shadows have finally got me going in a good direction.  Thanks!

Helene, hurrah! Another calamari lover! Glad the shadows inspired you. I’ll look forward tho seeing the result on your blog!

You already know what I would say about the calamari so I won’t bother!  Did like the shadow photos though.  Getting ready for more 90s temps.  Guess we have to expect that though since it is almost July.

C, of course I would not expect a vegetarian like yourself to get anything out of the squiddy shots.  It is delicious though. Just sayin’. As for the temps, yes bring on some higher temps than today’s, low 90’s please and not too much humidity.

Ilove the lawn shadows and the picture of your pool but the clamari - I will have to pass on that one!

Joyce, glad you liked the shadows, but come on, no adventurous eating??

How great to find a spare lens lying around! I wish that would happen to ME—ha!

I didn’t realize you were such an adventurous eater, between those tentacly bits and your recently expressed enthusiasm for sweetbreads. More power to you. I’m adventurous sometimes, but for the most part I’m sticking with chicken.

Steve, I had forgotten I even had it. Granted, it’s an older one with no image stabilization so I will probably get the best results with a tripod which I am notorious for not using.

I think I learned to eat adventurously while living in Europe—especially France where I learned to love offal even if other people think it’s awful. Ow, bad pun! Nothing wrong with sticking with chicken tho. I’ll try anything once.