@Lookout

Sounds as if you've a good garden underway. Glad enjoyed the Grandpa photo.

Fresh food, difficult to find in many neighborhoods, even here in winter. Browsed the local farmer's websites last week, five bucks for a pound of carrots tells the story.

Am always amazed and a little disturbed when in grocery store checkouts and see carts laden with cardboard packaged foods; well if you call that food, especially when there are children in tow. Convenience over health, it's a shame.

Interestingly, i do recall reading another article a while back that also said to purchase fresh food, organic or not, that fresh was best for nutrients. Makes sense.

Appears Spring may be up here to stay, yippee. Have a good one.

Nice art and loved the picture of the greening mountain. We've got lyre leaf sage, senecio (ragwort), and daisies blooming in the field - a mix of blue, yellow, and white.

Finally got out the peppers and eggplant this week. We've warmed (and dried) up significantly. Tomatoes seem to be doing better after their slow chilly start. Lots of lettuce, spinach, and greens coming in now. Salad city.

Eating healthy is more expensive than cheap processed foods... unless you factor in health costs. Heard an interview with a nurse treating COVID patients. She said she's not seen a metabolically healthy person suffer damaging effects from the virus regardless of age. That's hopeful news, and reason enough to start a health journey if you're not on one.

Thanks for the art and OT! Have a good one everyone.

@randtntx

The special quiet of morning, know the feeling. A beautiful Carolina Blue sky today; looking forward to venturing out a little, have to go to drive-by pharmacy anyways, so I've a motivation.

Wrens happily dart and chirp out the window and i should take my cue from them; put the worries aside and fly.

Good to share a morning coffee.

Thank you for the beautiful OT. I'm listening to the musical selection as I drink my coffee, it's very nice. The rest of the household is still asleep and it is the quiet before the day begins. We had rain last night, which we needed and it's a beautiful, cool, fresh, morning. I like the quote above, "It is the sun shining on the rain, and the rain falling on the sun shine..."

Love the art and the spring mountain photo... fabulous.

@enhydra lutris

Good you are ideally situated to enjoy the fruits of California. And if you'd like a neighbor along the Mediterranean, i wouldn't be too picky about the place.

Enjoy the market outing and have a good one.

and the music. I don't try to eat a Mediterranean diet. I would love to, because that would mean living there, maybe Barcelona, Marseilles, or out around Livorno or Lucca. It is not, as you note, not just what food, but fresh food; more properly what fresh food. Fresh San Marzano tomatoes, fresh Valencia oranges, etc,. The contents of the typical US diet can readily by boxed or otherwise packaged, frozen or canned, shipped all over hells half acre and eaten weeks or even months later. Not so the foods of the "Mediterranean diet", at least that of fable and story, which not even all of the locals in that area indulge in.

Otoh, I am lucky in that I can eat a good California diet, fresh local seafood, fresh produce, fruits, and veggies from around the state and my own back yard, some truly fine local cheeses and wonderful vino. Speaking of which, ye olde produce and veggie market, like Ahab, beckons and we must don our masks and slide on out early to avoid the arrival of crowds, so I gotta get getting.

be well and have a good one

@magiamma
Good reading, the links you posted; had a faint recollection of the Algonquin School, but not sure from where. Fascinating really, love to learn how movements came about, often by chance encounters, or mutual friendships. Plus, i love the period, give me a Doctor Who tele and i'd go in a flash.

One can spend countless hours in their works; thank you. Autumn in France, 1911 by
Emily Carr gets one attention. What fun and how like the France of my youth. Yeah.

Thank you magi.

Sunny here and planting tomatoes and eggy plants.

The painting definitely reminds me of the Group of Seven from Canada. The use of color in the paintings you chose is almost musical. Lovely.

The Group of Seven Plus four other plus Tom Thompson and Emily Carr who were not a members. There is a whole floor dedicated to Emily Carr in the Vancouver Art Museum. She is amazing.

Take good care on your outings. Have a good one.

The seven who formed the original group reunited after the war. They continued to travel throughout Ontario, especially the Muskoka and Algoma regions, sketching the landscape and developing techniques to represent it in art. In 1919, they decided to make themselves into a group devoted to a distinct Canadian form of art which didn't exist yet, and began to call themselves the Group of Seven.[8] It is unknown who specifically chose these seven men, but it is believed to have been Harris.[14] By 1920, they were ready for their first exhibition thanks to the constant support and encouragement of Eric Brown, the director of the National Gallery at that time. Prior to this, many artists[who?] believed the Canadian landscape was not worthy of being painted. Reviews for the 1920 exhibition were mixed,[15] but as the decade progressed the Group came to be recognized as pioneers of a new, Canadian, school of art.

After Frank Johnston left the group in 1920 to move to Winnipeg, A. J. Casson was invited to join in 1926.[8] Franklin Carmichael had taken a liking to him and had encouraged Casson to sketch and paint for many years beforehand.

@Pluto's Republic

you are kind; art finds it way by some destiny not driven by me; very happy you enjoy and that you are here. Cheers

The best art always finds its way to your page. What a splendid gift you have, my friend.

@travelerxxx

pizzelles, cool beans; found some good recipes; don't have an iron, but do have a skillet. Don't recall ever having or encountered the cookies in Italy or anywhere. Looks like a treat to me.

I do, however put vanilla in pancake batter. yum, yum good. Going to give them a go.

Glad you enjoy Saturday's, they provide a sanity, a stabilizing of pressure to me as well. Much needed at times.

Strawberry season down the mountain, saw a by-the-roadside truck farmer selling them yesterday and your delicious photo makes me want some today. Not to worry, the season lasts a few weeks.

It's a giant puffy-cloud day of perfect cool temperature, kinda an all's well that ends well Sunday.

Be well and safe out there.

Always love reading your Saturday OTs, smiley7. Blood pressure stays level as I do, which is probably something needed, particularly in these times.

Not exactly Mediterranean Diet stuff, but wife and I spent much of the afternoon making pizzelles, which are Mediterranean, being Italian, but probably not as healthy as some foods. Anyway, now we have two big containers of them ...might last a couple of weeks. Oh, vanilla flavored with bean paste (not cheap).

Ours don't look quite as nice as those in the photo...