Reverend Mother over at RevGalBlogPals has us all thinking about summer for today's Friday Five:
Friday Five: Hot Town, Summer in the City...
...or town, or suburb, or hamlet, or burg, or unincorporated zone, or rural area of your choice---pretty much anywhere but the southern hemisphere, it's summer. (Australians and others, consider this an invitation to take a break from winter for a while.)
1. Favorite summer food(s) and beverage(s)
Peaches from Clanton, Alabama. Quite simply, they are the most luscious, incredible, transcendent gustatory treasures ever. When S and I lived in the South, we'd always stop in Clanton to get bushels of them. We knew we were close when we could see the water tower. Then we moved here I was in misery for years. About three years ago, I discovered that I could mail order them from Durbin Farms--they FedEx them to me for a queen's ransom. Each and every exquisite bite is a little bit of heaven...
2. Song that "says" summer to you. (Need not be about summer explicitly.)
Porgy and Bess, Summer Breeze
3. A childhood summer memory
My family came to Miami Beach for summer vacations for several years. Coming from a country where driving knows no laws or restraint, my parents were scared to death of driving here. So we took buses. The first time we got on one, my younger brother, who was maybe 6 or 7 said in a hushed, wonder-filled voice: "My God, they have air conditioning for your feet in America."
4. An adult summer memory:
Going out through Port Everglades to the Atlantic with our friends' T and D, in their motorboat, and zooming up along the coast line from Fort Lauderdale to Lighthouse Point in the evening, with the ocean breeze on our face, and flying fish jumping along with us, to have dinner at Caps.
5. Describe a wonderful summer day you'd like to have in the near future. (weather, location, activities):
LM, S and I would take the hour-long drive up to Palm Beach county to go down the giant water slides at the water park up there the whole day long and stop on the way home for Pizza and Coke. I'm holding my breath, waiting to talk to my surgeon to find out if I can still do giant waterslides with my new hip...
Optional: Does your place of worship do anything differently in the summer? (Fewer services, casual dress, etc.) At All Saints if we got any more casual we might be arrested for lewdness.
What about you????
amazing water tower- great play!
Posted by: sally | June 22, 2007 at 10:06 AM
amazing water tower- great play!
Posted by: sally | June 22, 2007 at 10:07 AM
I love that water tower too.
Posted by: reverendmother | June 22, 2007 at 11:28 AM
I envy you the peaches. The ones that make it here are not luscious at all. I wonder if FedExing would be worth it?
Posted by: Songbird | June 22, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Songbird, this year it is not worth it. There was a bad freeze in late March/early April and everyone says this year's crop is not good. But oh, friend, when the crop is good, these peaches are just amazing. As a very extravagant indulgence, worth every last penny...
Posted by: RevRosa | June 22, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Love peaches fresh and or in all kinds of things, but for just plain eating, I prefer nectarines, no fuzz...fun play!
Posted by: mompriest | June 22, 2007 at 03:17 PM