Spring Evening

By Rachel

I am sure many of you are well into summer by now, and thoughts of spring and its foods are long gone.

But we are still deep in the spring foods, which at the market means several varieties of onions including wild leeks. These add a little spark to our now routine spinach and lettuce salads. June here also means wild rhubarb that Si and I gathered in Terelj. So for dinner, risotto (again thanks to Jenn) with bacon and spring onions, a salad and an apple rhubarb crisp for dessert.

It is summer, of course, but the nights still get in the 30’s or 40’s, and the days are in the eighties. The evenings are a cool but sunny, and the light is amazing. (Now, at almost 11 there are beautiful blue tones in the western sky.) Si and I took a walk after dinner and saw everyone out and about: the rides at the Children’s Park still going after 9, groups of teenagers walking in sex-segregated groups, a kid riding his bike in circles in the Parliament building parking lot, and four parachuters and the biplane that dropped them off.

Maybe now we are reaping the benefits of those dark and cold February nights.