Feeling bride-ish

Today is our 17th wedding anniversary! - July 25, 1992 - was THE day...so many, many mountains and molehills ago...

so today I'm feeling rather bride-ish!

This feeling was with me when I went out to the garden...

and I was suddenly struck by a need...

to pick out some accessories!

Low and behold,

right there in my 3 by 12 raised plank garden bed...was a big...

beautiful...

think wedding now...

bridal bouquet!

I couldn't resist posing prettily...

in all my glorious...ahem...petite-ness...cough, cough...

with my bouquet of buttercrunch lettuce!

Oh, the joy!

Oh, the rapture!

Aren't I simply the picture of radiance...

just as every bride of 17 years should look when she gazes into the great big ol' lettuce-head!

My dear Mother invited us out for a family dinner to celebrate our anniversary and it was a most lovely and beautiful evening.

Meet La Chef-Most-Extraordinaire - also sometimes known as Wild Shelley!

The menu included heaping amounts of:

Deep dish, tender-roasted, falling-off-the-bone chicken,

Mashed Potatoes with paprika and dilly sprinkles from la pepper-shakers,

Boiled cauliflower avec sauce de la cheese-cheddar-creme,

and fine tomato-pecan-avacado morsels served...

....a la top of la bouquet de buttercrunch lettuce!

It was a most delicious, most delightful evening.

Thanks Wild Shelley...

and kids...

and Tough Guy!

17 years and still counting...!