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Homemade sorbet made from super ripe plumbs :-).

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Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

A fabulous, bustling cafe my friend in I discovered in Washington, DC. If you're local, you must visit it just once. I got the Croziflette (gratin of buckwheat pasta, French ham, bacon, onions and reblochon cheese) that was delicious.

Bistrot Du Coin

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

- May Sarton

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My mother's roses, growing on the side of our house :-)

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

~Henry Ward Beecher