Peony
We have peonies in our yard, and as you can see, the first one bloomed today :-)
I just got back from visiting with friends in Poulsbo yesterday. We met them while stationed in Italy and they're great people-- they just got back from overseas last summer, so it's been great to be able to see them again. Poulsbo is a town on the west side of Puget Sound. Technically, it's only a few miles southwest of us, but to get there from our side of the sound, you either have to take a ferry or the Tacoma Narrows bridge. If you take the bridge (which I did) it's a two-hour drive. But when the weather is as beautiful as it has been over the past few weeks, and you've got a fresh mix CD in the car, who cares?
While staying in Poulsbo, our friend S and I visited Port Gamble, which is a cute, historical little town with a lot of antique shops and a wonderful place called LaLa Land Chocolates, where we had chocolate high tea. Which is: tea (or their fabulous Mayan hot chocolate, which contains almonds, cinnamon, and habanero pepper powder!), copious tea sandwiches, a giant scone, a chocolate-dipped orange flower cookie, a truffle, and fresh fruit with chocolate fondue.
Today F's mom and I did some errands and visited a local nursery, which had these roosters and a cat. Oh, yes, and plants! ;-)
Expect to be subjected to endless pictures of plants here, by the way. I just finished setting up a cutting garden and have just started working my way through the weed-clogged vegetable bed. Seedlings seem to be coming up faster than I can make room for them! What on earth inspired me to plant six flats of seeds at once, anyway?
*points surreptitiously in the direction of yougrowgirl.com, and logs off*
posted by Satrina @ 6:51 PM
8 Comments:
"Oooooh....pretty flauuuuwer!" (I'm such a gardening dim-wit) I guess I will get my education on plants and flowers here from you! This peony (have to giggle at the name just because I'm childish that way) is gorgeous! Keith and I are currently trying to improve our backyard. I'm so jealous of you! I wish I had a green thumb like you. Can't wait to see more pictures of lovely things you encounter. The tea sounded great. Wish I was there to enjoy it too. Sounds like you had a fun time!
what a pretty peony! :) love it!
should we call you mrs. green thumb? my herbs are doing okay....i thought i killed the opel basil when i replanted it (i don't think i had that when you were here visiting) but it's still okay. i've got three kinds of basil now (opel, lemon, and sweet) but i think i planted too many in such a small pot. (same for the cilantro and majoram!) we ended up planting sunflowers when we were at Legoland last month and they are doing quite well! i guess i'll have to take a picture of them to share when they bloom!
your tea sounds yummy! chocolate! btw - did you try that chocolate rose tea? my sister and i are taking my mom for Mother's Day - should be a fun experience.
again...what a gorgeous peony!
Cilantro...yuck!
Can a peony be any more perfect??? I almost bought a kind of big oil painting of one to put on my living room wall...but alas, I was too broke as usual :(. Maybe you can send me a copy of your photo and I can blow it up to poster-sized instead. ;) The real flower is so much nicer! As you know, I did not get my mom's green thumb, so I hope you post all the plant pics your heart desires. It would be great to see what grows in your world. Btw - I'm w/ Rachel on the cilantro - euw...
sillyduckie: The chocolate rose tea is sitting right here on my computer desk so I can catch a whiff of it every time I sit down :-D I know I should drink it, but it smells so good!
zonnestraaltje & otomayim: I have to even out the odds here-- I love cilantro. It took a while to grow on me, but I really miss it now since it won't grow in Washington!
In all fairness, cilantro isn't all that bad. It has its taste value. I just don't like it when whatever I'm eating is loaded w/ it - like the salsa at Burnt Tortilla some days. How come it won't grow in WA? Hey...maybe I can find you a mini greenhouse for Christmas???
Okay..I have nothing against people who like cilantro, but I must again scream, "EEEEEEEWWWW!!!"
My grandma used to make her own salsa and chile (Not the beany meaty kind, hot chile you put on food ...I guess you would call it salsa, but it's not really because salsa is chunky and chile is smooth and very hot) For all the pounds and pounds of homemade Mexican food I grew up eating, cilantro was not part of it ever. Then I grew up and it seems every place that serves "Mexican" food feels the need to put cilantro in everything. I want to taste the other flavors, not just cilantro.
Sorry you can't grow it in Washington though!
hey...what's wrong with cilantro?
you gotta have that chocolate rose tea....it is so good! you should smell it fresh out of the tin. it's a lot more potent than that if you can imagine it.
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