dinner

Grilled Chicken

w/ orange balsamic glaze

Romaine/Parsley Salad

w/Roasted Red Peppers, white beans and Oranges

Daily Koda

It was a BEAUTIFUL evening -

Some storms last night and this morning, 

cooled things down with nice crispish air....

Oh Mighty Iris Weekend comes to an end....

BUT !

 A Celebratory end!

As Neil won TWO best of type, 

among many other ribbons!

This is fantastic for his VERY FIRST Flower show!

 Just like a dog show, they pick "best of" everything,
then do best in show....

 There were A LOT of flowers entered

 The Judges - and really, they took their time

 waiting

 This is one of Neil's prize winners!
and its PINK!

 This is what won the whole thing - and its not about the amazing flower, but about the placement and arrangement of all of the blossoms on the stem -

Make sure to check out Neil's gardening blog for full updates:

DIAMOND RISE GARDNER

Looks Good

I have never cooked anything with rhubarb, but I have had two YUMMY desserts this spring with it, I think I might give this a try...

dinner

 Happy June!

Mendon Fireman's Parade 2013

As pure small town upstate New York as it gets :

With cocktails

The bar is just packed

But

Sadly there was a big storm a brewin'

Our street is closed

So, we just came home!

Iris-palooza '13 : The Aftermath

The good news about today was that ALL the worlds problems are solved - you knew something was going on . The bad news was that there was NO BEER left in North America. So, until they make some more, y'all just had to do with out for one or two days.....

 It really was a beautiful afternoon for the party, BUT the sun was just at that late afternoon angle that sort of messed up most of the photos that I took.

  

 Neil's flowers looked great, but a very warm afternoon

 This is what most of my pics of the party looked like...

 beverage table. 

Arnold Palmer

beer( LOTS ) / wine ( LOTS ) 

Neil kept making pitchers of Pimms Cup...

 My food choices were a bit limited, due to the heat

AND

I did not really have  clue how many people were coming.'

There was more than this and I kept re-stocking ( till I started getting a little tipsy) Big tray of sweets, Chicken Satay w/ peanut sauce - no pics..

People ate EVERYTHING....

 Neil wants a garden party - I gave him TEA SANDWICHES!

Which again, I did do some restocking, but people would have eaten 1000

of these--

• curried chicken salad ( that was very good, I need to try and remember what exactly I did  )
• cucumber ( seriously )
• Grilled Eggplant and Roasted Red Pepper w/ a basil and garlic mayo

 Gardening Super Stars showed up!

Giant Baby showed up

HFBFF and Jane showed up - lucky for me , these two stayed!

It was a very nice party, with a good turn out. 

I do believe everyone was pleased.