Sometimes, Sprinklers

Sometimes things happen.

A floating candle display is bumped and wax spills everywhere.  And then, just after cleaning up, the sprinklers turn on and threaten to soak a vendor display table.

It's those times that you have to listen, to pay attention, to take a second to know that it isn't all that bad.  Because sometimes those things can lead to so much more than you could have anticipated.

One Year

Sipping on Springtime

Introducing Favorites

A favorite friend and a favorite restaurant - made for an ideal Thursday evening.

 

 

 

Cocktails and Dreams

Scene from the weekend: Brunch

Scene from the weekend: Wine Tasting

One of many photos from an incredibly beautiful weekend.

Simple Spring

Coconut Cake Chronicles

 

When I was growing up, my mom would make a bunny-shaped cake for Easter.  It was covered in pastel colored shredded coconut... and I didn't like coconut.  She would leave one ear hairless so that I would eat the cake.

Times have changed and over the past year I've started to love coconut.  Coconut shrimp, coconut rice, coconut banana cream pancakes... I even made sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving with coconut milk.  So this year, I decided to reinstate the old family tradition.  I used a recipe based on Cooking Light for a coconut cake with fluffy coconut frosting.

The result?  Amazing.

 

Enjoy some of this today...

And have a heartfelt toast.