Freda's birthday lunch

Joy and Bonnie and I celebrated with Freda for her birthday at the beautiful restaurant Jardin at Botanical Gardens. Every bite of tapas, salmon and dessert was delicious!

It was wonderful to share a meal outside on this the first day of April--and we all highly recommend the food and ambiance of Jardin.

When I got home, Luci was right where I left her, looking out the window for me to come home.  What a welcome!

A poem shared by Bonnie, by Marge Piercy:

What happiness looks like

Some things are ordinary but perfect: drinking coffee on summer mornings with you as the cats laze about, fed, on you or on me or curled together in the bay window on a sunny pillow. Outside the weeping beech stirs in the wind, leaves hanging down like just washed long tresses. We talk softly of the pending day. This is all I would need of heaven that I don’t believe in, but this I believe.