Some things that I am mulling over after this morning’s Market foraging for L’Etoile

Q: What’s round and comes in colors of yellow, orange and deep red and goes well with an outdoor picnic or summer meal?
A: The food items in the first two Market photos (below).

Q: Is that a burst of stars over the word L’Etoile appearing in all items bearing the restaurant’s logo?
A: It’s actually a sketch of a flowering dill umbel, which, indeed, does resemble a starburst. (See fourth photo below – they were on my list for today’s Market.)

Q: How come the blue and yellow flowers look almost impressionistic in their fuzzy contours?
A: Because I was tired and didn’t bother taking a second picture – even though everyone knows that blue and yellow are my favorite color combination  and so I should have been extra careful with my photography when I came across this particular batch of flowers at the Market. Ah well, just think “Renoir” when you scroll down to the fifth picture below.

sweet cherries from Door County 

hierloom tomatoes 

A burst of stars? no, a flowering dill. Really. 

dill umbel or a burst of stars? 

a "painting" I'd like to have in my study 

Dancing revisited

(A comment on an evening with friends doing something I haven’t done in years)

Okay, so we left before the club closed, but we’re talking minutes before. My two-word assessment of dancing (from the perspective of one who has lived through many trends and styles) – it’s great fun in its current incarnation. Tonight, the hip-hop deejay was running the show  and the place was electric! Also packed. So that when they played “lean back… lean back…” and you swayed back a bit (with an arm out for emphasis), you could actually lean comfortably into the person behind you, no problem.

I can’t write more – I have to be up in 4 hours to go to the market and I’m all danced out. I’ll end with a photo of the deejay. If you change the nose a bit, doesn’t he remind you of someone?

Stuck in my head now – “I like the way you move…thump thump thump… I like the way you move…” Fantastic beat. Really, amazing movement opportunities.

from reggae to hip-hop