Four dollar tomato . . .

Showing photos of a few of those wonderful Live Oaks that grace Louisiana everywhere.

Had to go food shopping yesterday, first time since we've come home from A's and it wasn't pretty. Spent close to $200 just on necessities but the best was my beautiful, red, luscious looking tomato! We've been on a sandwich eating binge and since lettuce doesn't like me any more I always like a nice slice of tomato on top of the meat along with some Cain's mayonnaise. I will relish the slices from this tomato which cost over $4.00! If you work at minimum wage it cost about half an hour of work time. Gees Louise, when I started working at .50 an hour I would have had to work a full day to buy one big fat tomato at today's prices. Not sure what this all means except prices are outrageous and I, obviously, am not a good shopper!

Had a really good Friday evening and Saturday morning with Kiddo. We spent most of the time out of doors just walking in the woods to see Yoda and at the playground strutting our stuff for a little girl who was also enjoying time with her grandparents. What a pleasure. We went to Zip's for breakfast this morning. When we left home it was 45 degrees, overcast raw and gray. Zip's four corners was sunny, temperate, clear and beautiful. Returned home and we're back in the doldrums. Crazy New England. The trees are not at all special or bright and beautiful this year. A little bit of yellow, no reds to speak of, pretty drab. Since I am a "needs sunshine person" I hope the day progresses to bright and at least tepid! Will be going to a play in Putnam with younger brother and his wife this afternoon. All in all it will be a good day.

Quote: I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against melancholy; one was a bright fire; another, to remember all the pleasant things said to her; another, to keep a box of sugarplums on the chimney-piece and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought this mere trifling at the moment, but have in after life discovered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher and more exalted objects; and that no means ought to be thought too trifling which can oppose it either in ourselves or in others. __Sydney Smith