this weekend in pictures

A perfect salad for a hot summer's day: fresh, Maine tomatoes, black olives, herbs from our garden and goat cheese from the farmers' market.

Left-over French toast turned into the bread for the breakfast sandwich I made for Dan.  With a little bit of maple syrup on top, I thought it was super delicious.

The only glimpse of house work in this post.  Look at the difference after Dan has polished half of it!

A flat of strawberries picked by my mom at Maxwell's Farms in Cape Elizabeth.  Soooo good. Thanks, Mom!

Gooey Butter Cake baking in the oven.

Gooey Butter Cake fresh out of the oven.  Thanks to Dan's mom for the recipe! It is unbelievably good.  My dad actually said it's the best non-chocolate dessert he's ever had.  And that's saying a lot.

What's left of Gooey Butter Cake about 24 hours later.  Can you tell this was a highlight of the weekend?

Sneaking in a little kayaking in Camden harbor before the thunderstorms hit.

The makings of dinner...breaded and fried eggplant.

We rolled it up with ricotta, herbs from our garden, and tomato slices. Which Presidential candidate was it who couldn't spell potato? Ever since that story hit in the 3rd grade, I have hesitated before making potato/tomato plural. (Scroll to the bottom for the answer to my lame attempt at a trivia question...)

Here I am rolling it all up.

All done!

Flowers and lobster traps. (duh.)

Camden's harbor tonight.

The Appledore.  On this ship, you can take a cruise for a few hours.  Also, you can find/randomly bump into Jeff....Vail ski instructor, from Kansas, who just so happens to be working and living on this boat for the summer.  What are the chances?  

Camden's version of a skyline.

(...answer to said trivia question: Dan Quayle.  Actually, he was not a presidential candidate, but running for re-election as Vice President with HW Bush in 1992. From his page on Wikipedia, "His most famous blunder occurred when he corrected student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at an elementary school spelling bee inTrenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992." Elementary spelling nation-wide would never be the same.)