Only the Beginning (aka - First Harvest)

Sunday, May 22nd - 6:58 am and I am still alive.  No signs of any rapture from my apartment view, other than a handful of post Apocalypse jokes on facebook and public radio. 

And while I consider myself a nonbeliever, I have to admit at one point while having dinner friends thinking, "If this were the end, I would be perfectly content."  

After work yesterday, my two coworkers and a friend came up the hill to Monterey for dinner and a visit.  It was finally beautiful out, so we took advantage of the late afternoon sun and walked to the community garden.  There we harvested the seasons first heads of lettuce.  And the garden looks amazing!  I had not been there in about a week.  The peas are probably knee high and the onion sets I planted earlier are really growing and looking strong.  Carrots are starting to pop up strong and the cabbage plants are more than double their original size.  

We continued to walk around Monterey, visiting a couple of parks.  We harvested Lilacs for our table arrangement and flowers to add to our salad.  Hannah had provide morels she harvested from the forest and dinner looked something like this;

 

This is kind of an Asian inspired stir fry type dish; garlic, ginger, morels, carrots, leeks and spinach with a bit of soy sauce.  We served this with brown rice and quinoa and a gorgeous salad (that I don't really have pictures of).  

Amazing food and conversation was had around the coffee table.  Plans for future food, fishing, harvesting adventures were mapped out.  Last night definitely goes down in the book as "best rapture ever!"