We've had amazing weather in the bay area this weekend. We spent nearly the whole weekend in shorts, outdoors. We have sunburns! We should have been more prepared though, since there was actually a heat advisory due to the blistering 80 degree weather. You Texans at home should get a laugh out of this. The precautions include avoiding alcoholic beverages and wearing "loose-fitting clothing". We did neither of those, because we're not wussy Northern Californians. Just kidding, we love Northern Californians, and we're actually real wussies in the Texas heat. Anyway, point is, it was so hot here that it warranted advisories and special weather statements and the like.
This gave our garden a good opportunity to stretch its legs -- the tomatoes grew maybe an inch or more this weekend, and the radishes started exposing a new set of leaves which I can only assume mean we're a few weeks away from some fresh-from-the-garden radish on our tacos. We didn't do much work on the garden this weekend but I did have to remove the basil from the wine barrel. After my friend at SOMAFarmReport attended a gardening class recently and impressed upon me the importance of giving the plants space, I figured we'd just let the dying basil go (of course, we'll eat it) and give the tomatoes a chance to shine.
It was my birthday this weekend, too, and my good friend and amazing photographer Isaac (site: isaach.com) lent me a Canon PowerShot SD800 while my ordered and paid-for Panasonic Lumix languishes in UPS purgatory. We used it to take some shots of the garden, as well as our trip up to Limantour Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore (despite what the Google search results would indicate, it's not actually a nude beach... not that there's anything wrong with that... but well it's not).
Instead, it's an amazing beach with nice soft sand, decent parking, and absolutely freezing water. Even on a 80 degree day, 10 seconds in this water will make you numb. Before the beach though, we had a wonderful lunch at one of my favorite Marin County eateries, Two Bird Cafe. Brad's sandwich had smoked salmon, bacon, and apples. He swallowed it in one bite. After lunch and a few hours on the beach, we headed back to San Francisco. The only problem was that I had developed an insatiable, birthday-irrationality-fueled appetite for pie. Diner-style pie, not some French substitute like a tart. We completely stumbled upon Bubba's, a diner in San Anselmo which offers organic, high-quality diner food. Sounds paradoxical, yes? I had the Zorba the Greek salad (a large, fresh, delicious salad with gyro meat and feta on top), and Brad had sliders and french fries that were really amazing.
We didn't lose sight of our original purpose, however, and followed all of that with a slice of blueberry pie and a slice of lemon custard pie. They were both delicious and totally hit the spot. A wonderful birthday full of sunshine, tasty local food, and a garden photo shoot is complete. See the results below.
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