Adventureland

An adventure must begin with breakfast. Oh how I love white cheddar cheese.

 Thrift score. Yes, I did bring this home. I had to.

General Lumber sign near the thrift store. The building has pictures of famous generals on it too.

Scrap yard.

Shopping carts outside the scrap yard.

The Hideaway. Shares a parking lot with the scrap yard.

It's called the Hideaway for a reason I expect.

Notice the sparkles on the 'H' and 'R'.

Now we arrive at the abandoned strip mall.

Oriental Inn.

And now my favorite part: Bonanza Offices.

Speechless.

The detail is breathtaking.

You better be ready to prove it.

Best 49 cents ever spent.

A few hours later: burgers and this greek potato salad.

Wanting to go outside so bad and trying to squish through the screen.

This is from a different day last week, but I think it sums up the summer I'm having pretty well. The end.

Dear Diary,

this weekend, I

the tomatoes are blowing up

daisies from the front yard. From the farmer's market:

 crimini mushrooms;

onions;

garlic. Also purchased but not pictured: snap peas, lettuce, iced tea. Meanwhile, at the homestead:

This is her summer home. Sometimes she vacations in the flower bed outside.

Lemon spice sun tea. I will be drinking copious amounts of this all summer.

Sunday morning breakfast, and my new favorite: scrambled eggs with above pictured farmer's market mushrooms and onions, as well as chives from the garden, on toast smeared with goat cheese. Delicious. And finally, my favorite summer flowers: poppies and daisies, growing in my very own front yard.

Perfect summer weekend and it isn't even officially summer until tomorrow. My band also played a show Saturday night but I don't have any pictures of that yet. Okay, I have a lawn chair to go sit in now, see you!

Gemini

Happy birthday to all the geminis.

The Witch and the Cow

The Witch and the Cow  by Signe Baumane