Sunshine Found

Today is a gloriously pretty day.  Blue skies, not too hot or humid.  J and I headed to the farmer's market today.  I picked up some itsy bitsy tomatoes for salads, two heads of red leaf lettuce, 4 medium round red tomatoes perfect to make sandwiches to go with the bread I'm baking tonight, 2 containers of red skinned potatoes, and 2 large bunches of purple basil which will be getting made into purple pesto.  I'm planning on having G make me that pesto pasta a lot, can you tell?  I also picked up a 9th item (I usually get my allotted 8) because I was told to.  I'm guessing that they had an abundance of cantaloupe, so I was told to take one as a 9th item.  And really, who's going to turn down ripe, local, organic cantaloupe?  I'll freeze more melon balls for G! 

Then we ran some errands, and I stopped into Trader Joe to pick up 5 things of butter (I was down to a pat which is considered catastrophic), some raspberries, and a flatbread for my lunch and dinner.  I picked the wild mushroom with black truffles and mozzarella and it's delicious as usual.  I'll eat the other half for dinner with a salad.  And I also picked up these:

I love hydrangea.  Some day I want a backyard filled with hydrangea, peonies, hyacinth, tulips, and English garden roses.  I bought this tea pot from a thrift store last year specifically as a vase (it doesn't have a lid, otherwise it'd be used as a teapot, it's gorgeous!).  It's from American occupied Germany (so it's old) and it's just the perfect centerpiece with these flowers.  I needed something to just make me smile.

I'm off for a nap and then onto baking bread, making a spice cake, and making more tomato paste.  Should be a delightful evening!