Flowers - a thank you bouquet
As I can't send the real flowers from my garden as a token of the huge thanks I owe to the generous and wonderful ditch_gospel for an unexpected and undeserved saiyuki (manga series) gift which arrived this morning, I thought I'd post some photos from today for everybody to see. Here are three different views of the garden in general:
Some of the specific characters in the flower beds are pretty colourful at present, especially a rough-edged scarlet and black poppy, a huge crimson rhodoendron and its neighbour the sweet-scented golden philadelphus:
After mowing the grass, I tried my first shot at a Yellow Fried Chickenz dish - not dislikable but scarcely stunning (and possibly not helped by my lack of oven as several of the recipes I used to base the trial on required oven-crisping as the final stage). Tomorrow, a friend is bringing over Dorinda Hafner's United Tastes of America, which apparently has a dazzling version of southern fried chicken. Trial 2 will tell! Meanwhile, here's tonight's dinner:
- and now I'm off to read that saiyuki treat :=)
Some of the specific characters in the flower beds are pretty colourful at present, especially a rough-edged scarlet and black poppy, a huge crimson rhodoendron and its neighbour the sweet-scented golden philadelphus:
After mowing the grass, I tried my first shot at a Yellow Fried Chickenz dish - not dislikable but scarcely stunning (and possibly not helped by my lack of oven as several of the recipes I used to base the trial on required oven-crisping as the final stage). Tomorrow, a friend is bringing over Dorinda Hafner's United Tastes of America, which apparently has a dazzling version of southern fried chicken. Trial 2 will tell! Meanwhile, here's tonight's dinner:
- and now I'm off to read that saiyuki treat :=)