In lieu of having a recipe to share, here’s an onion. It’s a particularly lovely onion, I might add, and looks to be shaping up as a nice aromatic base for tonight’s dinner.

Leftover lemon from tonight’s back-to-healthy dinner of quinoa, kale, lemon, garlic, cumin, paprika, smoked almonds & olive oil.

Yays! My love finally came back 🙂

A knot in the big tree in the “dog park,” an abandoned fenced-in lot behind my building.

Breakfast date with my love at a little roadside German diner/fudgeaterium in Sanford on the way to the airport.

Adorable niece the eldest.

Eastern North Carolina style chopped BBQ, aka pig, at The Pit in Raleigh.
And fried pimento cheese. Yum.

More vacant lot life — teeny, tiny snails.

Mini flowers in a vacant lot.

It’s a rainy afternoon, my husband’s out of town, and I’m “too sore” to work out. I’ll give you one guess what’s for dinner.