Picnic in Discovery Park

Early Sunday evening we took a picnic to Discovery Park. Dara the husband, Calvin the baby, Chloe the dog and I hiked out to the big meadow, where we smooshed down some long grass with a blanket and watched the sun set over Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. We packed a hearty salad of fresh vegetables from the farmers market -- shaved asparagus and radishes, and little shelled peas, dressed in lemon Parmesan vinaigrette. On the side, some crusty bread and sliced yellow tomatoes.

Then we assembled strawberry shortcakes -- with local berries, warm buttermilk biscuits and vanilla ice cream topped with crispy bacon and maple syrup. It finally started to feel like summer. Especially when I started sneezing uncontrollably and my eyes swelled shut! The secret ingredient for next time is Claritin. It was still a romantic picnic, though, :-)