My Favorite Green Hat
New Hat with Old Scarf
Blair's Hat
Summer Hat All Hats by Laurie Fox Pessemier 17 x 24" 41 x 63cm
Sunshine on the wall Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas board 10 x 14" 25 x 35cm
Artnotes 1 vanished from my screen, so here I sit, scanning
my brain for a new idea. In fact, the
last version wasn’t really so good – I talked about coming off vacation with a
wellspring of ideas: OK, so let’s see them.
I think it is worthwhile to mention that I want a job! As in, some regular rewarding (aka paid,
financially or spiritually, preferably both) activity. I want what I do to be beneficial to mankind,
whether it is expanding horizons (the library? language? lessons?) or expanding
stomachs with new recipes. My love for
cooking was reignited, like my stove, on 27 July. I can
wear many hats.
I’ve been making some terrific recipes using the fruits of
the very bountiful Italian harvest. This
week I made a pasta with cherries, nuts and gorgonzola; quail with kiwi chutney
and blueberries; endive glazed with nut liquor and hazelnuts. Vittorio has kept us supplied with fresh tomatoes
and radicchio. We’ve eaten tons of
salad, as the temperatures, extremely humid, skirt the 90s.
This week, in quest of cooler climes, we drove to Sestola,
higher in the Apennines. It was
chockablock with people for the weekly market. We fell upon teeny-tiny wild
blueberries from Monte Cimone (6 euros/kilo); three flats of cherries for 2.50;
and tomatoes and peppers. We canned,
froze and made jam from the fruit. It is
remarkable to me how good these blueberries taste, as well as the other foods,
IN SEASON.
And I wonder what season I am in? I am trying to learn Adobe’s Creative Suite,
on the week long free trial, so I can get my Baseball book into a hard cover
format that the Baseball Hall of Fame will put on their shelves. My expiration date on being able to quickly
learning a new computer program might have expired. I move this task into one that I don’t want
to do. It’s harder to do what I don’t
want to do these days. Meanwhile, I
press on learning Italian. I like that.
Today I am on track of a new curry recipe I found, using
direct, rather than blended, spices. I
have an idea for a fresh pasta dish, if that fails. We take our meals outdoors, for the most
part, under the tent out front, or the shade in back. The drawback is mosquitoes, who seem
particularly vicious this year.
We moved the piano aside and both ends of the living room
are open to the air. The wind blows
through, albeit warm and I hold onto my hat.
