Saturday Sky Avec Plum Blossoms

With a side of asparagus:



And the peas are up!



I am feeling seriously hung over, and even though that beautiful blue sky and sunshine are beckoning, I can hardly get out of my own shadow this morning.  Last night was fun, but oh-so-exhausting, and I didn't get home until well after midnight, what with driving home in rain and fog and in an almost stuporous state.  I think I did a reasonably good job, and though it was far from perfect, I can't imagine many other people doing an appreciably better job.  It was challenging -- that's an understatement.  And it was seriously HOT up in that balcony.  Towards the end of the second act, I felt woozy and so did my steno machine.  I was fighting it to get it to register the O key last night.  As I said to someone else who was working there last night, this Mira steno machine is the most expensive PIECE OF CRAP I have ever owned.  I feel eminently justified saying this now that I have just come back from a conference where I rubbed elbows with some of the elite, all of whom had the same opinion. I can't wait 'til the pieced-together old faithful one will work with my computer (it's the connection that is the problem with that one, I think/hope, and I'm waiting for the proper connecting device to arrive).  There was a point in time when I was getting pure gobbledegook.  I stopped writing for a bit.  It's as if the machine overheated or something(?).  Anyway, then I picked up again, and there were fewer errors.  I know *I* was certainly overheated, as were the other two people working up there.   

Anyway, super-fresh asparagus for brunch!  That's certainly got to improve my mood and energy.  And hopefully I can get out there and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. 

Have a nice Saturday, people!

Comments

[Steph]

gorgeous asparagus!

[Carolyn]

Ditto !!! The asparagus is beautiful. I've gotta grow me some of that stuff one day.

[marie in florida]

seeing your asparagus is my punishment for bragging about having veggies ready already. LOL

[susan]

Dn't yu mean "PIECE F CRAP"?

[AnnaMarie]

Our tiny plum tree that got eaten to a nub last year by Japanese Beetles (before I bought the house, I soooo would have flicked those bastards off) anyway... it's putting out leaves! We thought it was a goner for sure. Yay Spring!

[marianne]

Working in a hot balcony? that sucks. tremendously.
Hope you're feeling better now and yes, that asparagus and some fresh air will go far in getting you there!

[Jo in Boston]

My peas appeared yesterday, too--and I have two nice, neat little rows of spinach.

[claudia]

Mmmm. Asparagus.

[Patty]

Fighting to get the O to register?

[gayle]

Our asparagus is just starting to peek out. Peas are up about as far as yours. I'm soooooo ready for fresh veg! I've gotten anxious enough that I've broken down and bought produce at the grocery store - I normally don't do that, not wanting to support off-season, non-local veg.

[paula]

Lovely photos. I keep checking my asparagus bed for shoots. I am planting edamame tomorrow

[Diane]

Read this today and couldn't help but think of you; it's a recipe for pasta alla Norma and it actually sounds like something you'd enjoy. (I think.) http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/pasta-alla-norma/

At the end, the writer asks "who's Norma?". Perhaps we should tell her?

[elizabeth a airhart]

hope you had a ticket to win at the derby
take care good night

[Carol]

I've got to let my asparagus grow this first year but I've got some other veggies growing now!

[sandy]

That curvy asparagus is cracking me UP! :) They look delish!

[faerielady]

I'm jealous of the asparagus. Jealous. Totally.

My tomatoes flooded :( Root rot. Damnit. Back to square zero.