So far this week.....July 16, 2015

 

Summertime lunch with friends-

French Onion soup, hot biscuits, Caprese salad

 and fruit salad with Gingersnap cookies

for our dessert.  

 

We had unexpected company....

I think he wanted to join us!

 

 

We drove up to Ashland to do some

Home Depot shopping and checked

out the Farmers Market....

 

Huge vegetables....

 

Oodles of plants for the garden....

 

And ready to take home bouquets

of summer flowers.

 

On the way home we spotted

lots of baby horses with their mothers....

I'll post more photos later!

Have a great day!

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My Birthday Week

My birthday is October 2nd and I fully intend

to celebrate all month!

This first photo is of September's full moon....

Here's some of my garden's bounty! I made lots of

tomato sauce this year and Delicata squash gnocci.....yum

Our good friends Bill and Ewana were coming up for a long weekend
from Weed, California to help celebrate...
So I made some Oatmeal Cranberry Coconut Orange cookies
in case we got a it peckish in between meals...hahahah

Russell and I walked down to inspect the massive sewer
interceptor project going on....the lake has been drawn down
about 25' to enable replacement of our sewer line.

Incredible project- it's taking more than a year to complete

We went to Marylhurst University
(my alma mater)
to celebrate the Art Gym's 30th year!
Greg Grenon and Mary Josephson were two of
the artists exhibiting in this marvelous show.

http://www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/index.php

http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/grenon_g.html

http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/josephson_m.html

Wild mushrooms at the Lake Oswego Farmers Market!

I purchased some Lobster and Shitake mushrooms

Russell made a fabulous pasta dish with the mushrooms...

Huge artichokes!

Someone let these zucchini get out of control in the garden!

Gorgeous colors in the fall

Later this past week we went to the Green Dragon Brewery

and saw these goats in a field- they were with a whole bunch

more and were clearing all the brambles from the field.

Goats for Hire... the sign read" the goats are here to enjoy

and feast upon what spontaneously grows on this urban meadow.

Unlike gas-powered mowers, goats require no fossil fuels

to trim the vegetation" How clever is that?

and here's a pic of this months flower arrangement

that I put together for Blue Sky Gallery-

Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts

a non-profit gallery that is supported by

a huge group of volunteers
This month is a special month for Blue Sky

It's the 35th year it has been exhibiting photographs

and it started with just 3 photographers with a wonderful vision.

Mazeltov!

http://www.blueskygallery.org/

and finally...last but NOT least here's a little

video of Bill and Ewana's little

Cairn Terrier doing what he does best...

entertaining us! Enjoy!

Portland Farmer's Market is open!

Since our local Farmers Market doesn't open for another month, Russell and I went hunting and gathering today in Portland for our meal of the day......look at what we found and will eat!

Dave's yummy organic chewy to the last crumb bread.....

We chose a wild boar rillette to go on the side of our pasta dish....

Truely homemade pasta...................

Here's what we came home with.............


and here's what we ate............wild mitake mushrooms sauteed

in olive oil with our homegrown garlic with a bit of hot pepper flakes and

Italian spices ...served with Nonna's Noodles and topped with fresh parmesan.........yummmmmmy