Public art

Last night I went to the playground just off Inman Street, near Inman Square. There's a really cool prism of a climbing structure, which I've seen before. There were two new things I noticed, however.

The mural on one wall is brightly colored and irregularly shaped. It seems to include kids' drawings with more professional-looking ones. There are random scatterings of letters and numbers, also a dolphin off the right side of the mural, and a beautiful flying elephant, a keyhole shape showing two hands holding each other, an interesting dragon. Lots of swirly colors, and I'm sure there are details I missed.

There's also a circular area that has a sprinkler in the middle, I think. There are shapes painted onto the circle showing the range of the water, a toothbrush and tooth, a letter or two, some high-heeled shoes, some numbers, etc. Not really noticeable unless you choose to look...
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Dinner on a warm night

(How can I not have written much about food in the last week? No, I'm not ill, just been busy enough that either it was quick pickup food, or eating out/at friends'... (Really, no one else seems to be quite as food-obsessed as I am. I should think about this sometime.))

It was just warm enough last night that I didn't want to spend too much time applying heat to food, and I definitely didn't want to use the oven (so much for a quick batch of bread). I started with a salad, a mix of the three kinds of lettuces I got from the farm last week, some basil, a minced garlic scape, some thinly-sliced radiccio, and pine nuts, with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (I need to get some more of this. I've been using it a lot on salads.).

I made rice, and a stir-fry-esque sautee of veggies to top it, with most of the veggies either from the farm or the Brookline farmers' market (I'm still surprised they had it last Thursday). I used onions, another garlic scape, a small head of cauliflower, a bunch of not-quite-baby bok choy, carrots, halved sweet peas in the pod, extra firm tofu cubed and marinated in soy sauce. I added ground pepper, hot pepper oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, and ginger powder (yes, I was feeling lazy. At least I added a lot of it...).
It felt good to make something that I was both in the mood to eat and relatively healthy, as well.

Thoughts of sorbet were contemplated, but in the end, left for another day.
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Grrrr

Somehow I'd always assumed I'd be done with zits before I got to the grey-hair-and-wrinkles stage. It's just not fair to have to deal with the worst cosmetic bits of being younger (theoretically) and older at the same time.
Feh.
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Leaves, the sequel (aka veggies, week 5)

This week the magic box of veggies included:

a lot of pac choi (apparently that's what I got last week, when I thought it was bok choi)
2 small heads of cauliflower
2 smallish heads of lettuce
a BIG bunch of arugula
a large yellow summer squash that's much bumpier than any I've seen (it has warts!)

I left a bunch of cilantro behind: I can't eat fresh cilantro, nor can I stand the smell, which to me is garbage-like. I know there are lots of people who love it; I wish I were one.

Though this list may be shorter than other weeks' lists, the box was still a full one...
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