A Good Day At The Cemetery

[plumtreeblossom]

Yesterday Andy and I spent the afternoon hiking all around Mt. Auburn Cemetery. It was the best choice of things to do together. We walked and walked and had plenty of time to talk in a low-pressure environment. We really got to know so much more about each other -- our histories, aspects of our personalities... and that we're both comfortable making jokes in grave yards. We walked 3 or 4 miles, all told.

We were hungry after that, so we went to dinner at Stella's in Watertown. It's a somewhat pricy but very good Italian place. I had a glass of malbec and he had a merlot. We shared a roasted beet salad that was out of this world. It was something I never would have thought to order myself because it contained horseradish which I hate, but I couldn't taste the horseradish at all, just the luscious beets, walnuts, and endive. Then I had an amazing wild mushroom fettuccine that featured sauteed portabello, crimini, shiitake, and porcini mushrooms (I'm trying to be like lillibet in remembering what I ate). It was dressed in a truffle oil and light cream sauce with freshly ground black pepper. Oh. My. God. It was mushroom lover's paradise. It clearly reminded me that I could be a vegetarian if I had dishes like this all the time. Mushrooms are meat.

It was a great day together. But now he has a business trip (teaching at a seminar) and I won't see him for a whole week. :-( I like how this all is actually starting to take on a shape, but I don't want it to lose momentum. Guess e-mail will have to do for the week...

Comments

[bex77]

I was there yesterday, too! I took my friend L. from the nursing home for a drive and that was the best place I could think of to see the flowers and trees...what a glorious show nature what putting on!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'm dying to am enthused to go again. It gets more beautiful every day all the way through to the end of fall. It's even beautiful in winter.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I guess it isn't going to happen this week. And I spect too much yesterday (we split the check). But soon, definitely! :-)

[mindflankr.livejournal.com]

Your post made me hungry....you should be a food critic!