More Dollar Days!

Hi! Just a quick reminder...I add new dollar days stuff all the time, on my etsy shop [see sidebar].

Margarita delight [delish?]

summer days, autumn nights

Baordwalk Memories

Today I listed stacking bracelets...very fun, great gifts, bead alone are worth a lot more than one buck.

PS If you see something and it has sold, pls ask me...I have more bracelets and other treasures, one of them can be yours!

enjoy!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach

Strawberry Market

Oooh!! Deep breath...June, strawberries...their heavenly scent filled the alt air of the farmers market this week.

And other than pickles and cheeses---strawberries, asparagus, and baby lettuce is about the only local produce we have in early June.(Must have been a hungry time for Pilgrim-types and pioneers? Before the early crops produced?).

I loaded up on fresh ricotta, strawberries..and of course asparagus. The farmers' stalks are not as perfectly sized, all thin, all fat! as the supermarket's but oh so fresh and sweet.

I hope to make a risotto like Tammy suggested, clipped a recipe just the other day. Arborio rice [fragrant], white wine, chicken stock...toss in the asparagus and some arugula at the end, lots of black pepper and Yum!

But for now I did a fast easy stir fry, the asparagus, a steak, slivered, a Vidalia sweet onion,lots of cubed tofu, green onions. Stirfy sauce, peanut butter, ginger....

Noodles on the side, made with green onions and sesame oil...for those of us who like a bit of pasta any time.

             

                   

And..oh my! pink peonies. One must have pink peonies...in June.

love,

lizzy

................gone to the beach....

PS I saw the baby plovers tonight! On the beach. They run so fast I couldn't get a photo...

Flea Market and Toad Flax

Hi! Aren't these long summer evenings just the best! It's after 8PM as I write this and the sky has just a hint of pink...still daylight, really.

This Sunday I decided it was cool and cloudy enough for the June flea market. It's still in the cramped awful spot, but the dealers who remain seem to be more accepting now. Many of my favorite people are gone though.

I had great success anyway! I met a very nice guy who had boxes and boxes of old wonderful bottles.

Many were perfect and bright...he seemed a bit puzzled as I hunted out the obviously dug-up or beachcombed bottles that had beautiful [to me] iridescence, patinas, and imperfections....

Now I can make more of my seaglass bottles, fill some orders from the spring.

He even had some of the old hard to find glass disk lids for Mason jars....

 

When I got home I went right to the beach despite a sudden very windy rain squall.

                      

I walked back down into the swale which has filled with the early June full moon high tides and flooding. Earlier in the week I saw two bunnies there, and wondered if their nest had flooded.

No bunnies, but wonderful tiny, almost alpine wildflowers were blooming in the suddenly wet ground.

I brought this home, just a sprig.

(isn't the purple glass canning jar fantastic!)

 

I had never seen these flowers before.

From a childhood spent roaming fields and woods it's rare that I have no clue what a flower may be. Spent quite a long time on Google.

                     

Seems this is a native plant, called Blue Toad Flax. Isn't that a funny Ye Olde Englishe sort of name?

                                          

Too tiny and dainty to be invasive though the non-native yellow "Butter and Eggs" version is considered an evil weed.

And last, a long shot of my photo shoot the next day...I thought you'd enjoy seeing my view....

love

            lizzy

gone to the beach