Thank you, everyone, for the lovely birthday wishes! (Nice to see you,
Nellie!)(Not belated for me yet,
Betsy-Rose, here in Pacific time)
johobbit wrote:You see scenes similar to this every day, but I couldn't resist a cake of the same.
You do find the most gorgeous cakes,
jo. Most apropos, really. A rainy day today, with all the mountains wearing shawls about their shoulders; a sunny day yesterday. This was a good thing, as a bunch of us formed a cavalcade in the morning, and went up to the sub-alpine meadows for a picnic. The road up is something else, so we dropped off the more genteel vehicles at the bottom, and crammed into the rugged ones. Lots of deer, and not TOO many mosquitoes--scads of wildflowers, and, up higher, patches of snow for the kids to slide in.
Today, I spent recovering
*whistles a line from
The Old Grey Mare she ain't what she used to be... *