From the garden

Today's pickings include flowers from the spent broccoli plants, cauliflower, snap peas and nasturtium leaves which are edible.

The nasturtium leaves and snap peas joined lettuce and leftover black bean and corn salad in a tossed dinner salad.  Cauliflower was roasted with avocado and zucchini and asparagus and added to quinoa pasta, topped with grated Parmesan, basil and parsley (also from the garden).

Keelyn is 12!

Keelyn celebrated her 12th birthday yesterday with a pool party, yummy food and cake which she ordered....a vanilla cake with raspberry frosting....made with love by her Moppy and Pop who crafted the marshmallow flowers on top.

Good job blowing out those candles!

Isn't she just the prettiest?

Milk shake boy

We have the privilege of being with Will for a few days this week.  He likes Johnny Rockets, a 50s burger joint, so we went there for lunch and to listen to oldies.

The best crab cake ever

Hands down, Stoney's in Broomes Island has the best crab cakes we have ever tasted and we have eaten them all over the eastern and western shores of the Chesapeake.

Eva and Layne

Baby crab cake sandwich with fixins'

New at the beach

"What is this?" you ask.......  Something new has been added to our boardwalk.

While the boardwalk was updated with new decking, expanded foot wash and shower areas with benches were added at each dune cross over.  Very blue, it's not hard to find the new showers!

More.......

I am loving my peonies this year!  My three bushes are really putting out.....

The light yellow outer part of the flower looks like lace.

The pinks are opening today.

This one will be open tomorrow.

Peony

 You have to be here to really enjoy my first peony of the season.  The camera does not capture the beauty of this flower...or the lovely scent.

How about the two colors on one bloom?