GARDENING & POETRY NEWS

which preambles with this conversation du jour:

The enchanting 5-year-old Cerise in a purr-fect princess dress: Eileen, where are the bad people in your dungeon?

Moi: Only good people are allowed at Galatea....

And then I served Cerise's parents (heh) a Greek dish I made for the first time: a summer "stew" of watermelon, French feta cheese and mint.

Mint -- that I picked from Moi's own garden! To wit:

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST TALLY, to date

35 sprigs of parsley
3 yellow squashes
1 cherry
42 sprigs of basil
2 Santa Rosa plums
2 lemon cucumbers
10 sprigs of mint

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Cerise's Dad has a new poetry collection! Please to check out his version of Paradise!