my red toaster was on a not my table one day.

(taken with hasselblad 500c on rdp lll)

hi.
it's still cool.
as i learned yesterday that i shouldn't blog afternoon this season, i'm blogging early in the morning today.
the tempreature is something around 70 degrees, so it's pretty comfortable.

i said in the second last post after quite a long hiatus from the third last post that i haven't had anything remarkable so far this summer in regard to how i have been up to .
and now, i have to say that it haven't been really such.
not very exciting but kind of something fun, i had at the very beginning of this month.
i traveled around south utah by driving with my husband.
i spent 4 nights there after a dreadful long drive, and needless to say, i did the same dreadful thing on my way to home.

i had known that we would not have proper breakfast on an important beginning of a day during the trip, i dared to put my 5-year-old red toaster into our luggage secretly.
i don't know how my husband felt when he found this pretty toaster, which was supposed to be on our kitchen counter, in our luggage which laid over on a collapsible chair in a hotel room, i'm confident that he must have appreciated my strange idea when we bit crisply toasted bagel for our breakfast.

for me, the most important meal of the day is breakfast.
wherever, whenever and whatever breakfast.
you can describe me as " tomily's religion is something related to breakfast."
yes, i would believe in the god of breakfast, if it existed.
so i can't make little of breakfast even though i'm not at home.


well, i was so happy that i was able to have pretty breakfast in cheap hotel rooms each days of the trip like i have everyday at my home.
the only different thing from usual mornings was that he baked a bagel for me and him.
that was wonderful!!
i had known that i would be happier with that than we ate something well-made luckily at a local cafe or something unwanted at an affordable restaurant.
something usual but just a bit unusual is very good for me when i'm in a really unusual situation like a trip. :))


dear mr. red toaster,
i met you at a small but having quite a large variety kitchen gadget shop in a small pretty town in central idaho.
as soon as i recognized you at a shelf which a lot of electric kitchen tools are arranged, i noticed i would need you in my everyday life.
now, 5~6 years have past since then, and you're still young and lovely.
i just like your job and your looks.
thank you for having given me thousands of pretty mornings. :)

sincerely yours,
tomily

a delicious lunch at a simple table outside

(taken with nikon f on kodachrome 64)

hi.
it's hot.
the hotness kind of i dislike; humid hottness is here.
i don't know if this weather reminded me of something i ate in italy last may or not, i was thinking of this simple food from a small pretty shop anyhow.
i didn't come up with the name of this at first, so i looked it up on web.
the clue for that was only first some letters of the name, pia.
the name of this food must be pia+something.

first, i tried "piandini".
i can't explain where i got this idea, but this sounds like italian, doesn't it?
unfortunately, it just hit few notes about starbucks' new menu of sometime of 2009.

then i thought about how italian name works.
the words which end with "i" mean the plural version of something, i think.
so, i typed "piandina" next ( the words which end with "a" are defined as single, well, i hope so ;) ), and searched.
bingo!
i got the right name!
yeah, it actually is "piadina" for its official name ( doesn't need "n" in the middle of the word), but thanks to the kindness of a nowaday's able advanced civillization, the google asked me " do you mean 'piadina' ? ".
i was not sure at that time, but i nodded hard with a high expectation.

all above is what happened this morning.

i might have rememberd what i wore when i ate this simple piadina.
this blue and white striped one-piece dress is the perfect image for cooling down my heated brain, i think.
or more possibly, i should've remembered how a cold bottled light beer, which i had with this piadina even though i had fairly high fever at that time, had tasted sooooo good.
today's hotness reminds me of this piadina like those ways.

piadina is very simple quick food. ( i'd rather use "quick" than "fast" because of a nuance "fast" has in regards to food.)
it's like a taco or a pita, something is sandwiched in between folded-in-half warmed thin flat bread.
mine had slices of fresh buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes and rucola.
i was handed that being put in a transparent plastic bag and wrapped up with a paper, in case the water mozzarella would produce messed my hands and clothes up.
i was impressed with that small but big thoughtfulness.
my husband i ate our each own piadinas ( should i use "piadini" here? :)) at the simple table arranged outside the shop.
it was so tasty, healthy and italian!!


well, i found this tiny shop accidentally.
just after we reached arezzo, which is one of the famous towns of tuscany, and checked in at a hotel and left our heavy luggage, we went out for hanging around that pretty medieval town.
then we walked by this shop, but we passed through at first.
as it was almost the time for lunch, and my mostly reliable insight told me that the shop we passed through must have been somewhere i shouldn't have missed.
then we went back to the site, and entered in a still dark and quiet shop. ( it looked like just had opened that day.)
although there had been only one other customer than us, as we ate ours outside, some local residents started to go in and out busily.
i made sure that my instinct was right because of a delicious piadina itself and the population of the local patrons.


so now, i notice that i feel much hotter than when i started to write this story because of the heat my computer produced.
i'm pretty not sure what i wanted to do here this hot afternoon.

stay cool, friends!
i'll skip a love letter today, 'cause i want to be away from this heated computer asap. ;P

cherry

(taken with polaroid 180 on blue film)

hi.
summer has been already here for a while.
i can't remember what i said about the season in the last post.
so, i'm admittedly a scattered blogger.
sorry, friends.

a lot of things happened since.
but nothing big at all.
time just passed by with some summer fruits.

i like white peaches, white nectarines, watermelons ( not eaten this summer yet, though), and so on.
of all pretty summer fruits, i especially like cherries in terms of linguistics.
how it is pronounced and the sweetness its pronunciation renders are beyond description.
"peach" is good at, too.
but "cherry" is the best.

and another point which is deserving special mention of cherries is that some of them appear as twins before me.
when i grab one small soft ball of cherry, its thin string sometimes pull another identical buddy.
i'm instantly pleased with that unexpected incident.
twin is iressistible, isn't it?
since i was a child, i have wished if i had been born as a twin.

well, which do you prefer rainier or black kinds?
the ones in the top picture are rainier which i bought second last this season.
i like their gradation of the color from pale yellow to vivid red.
i love the bold and kind of antique color of black ones, too.
so, i love both, and which i prefer depends on my mood.

one regrettable thing is here.
black cherries i bought last were not good.
disappointingly not good at all.
i have to make it up with next shopping of either cherries in my mood after sampling one or two.
i'm sure that sampling is necessity for buying good fruits. ( last time when i bought not-good-cherries, i skipped sampling.)

hope you have happy fruity summer :))


dear cherries,
you're such sweet that remind me of the dream of my childhood of being a twin.
i knew that i wasn't able to be anymore, but i wished.
hope you aren't been apart from your identical brothers or sisters.
love you.

sincerely,
tomily

a few good tendencies

taken with polaroid180 on 664 film

hi, friends.
how've you been doing recently?
i'm sorry that i almost relapsed into a lazy blogger.
my mood swang a lot lately, and i've tried not to be cluttered.
just plenty of rest and careful concentration on everyday have been needed.

as i've been such, i thought that adopting some good changes or tendencis will probably help to hold me up both mentally and physically.
here's a small list of those taking place around the table recently.

1, cut down sugar as much as possible
2, add moderate spiciness
3, use plenty of vinegar especially for appetizers
4, consumption of warm drinks and food

i think i usually have had a rather healthy diet, but especially in this season, i need to adopt the way strengthened a bit.
and recently i found the article about ayurveda.
as i've been following the rule of ying and yang for a long time, ayurveda, new for me, have something drawing me because of its unique and original character.
i'm not a fad at all, but i just believe those natural rules or the way of engaging in my own life.
i strongly believed that food makes people.
i sometimes eat and drink in the way of living to eat, but have been hoping eating to live.

so now, i've been saying " see you later" to doughnuts. ;))
stay cool and vigorous, friends! :))


dear doughnuts,
you're pretty, but now's not the time for you.
could you wait patiently for me, please?
sincerely,
tomily

something about the table.

taken with polaroid sx-70 on 600 film

here's the list of what i love around the table.

1, the table which is collecting light by the window is bringing brightness to the unlit room.

2, my cats are sitting on the chairs and peeking mischievously over the table. (and sniffing food as if they are determining whether it's delicious or not.)

3, taking pictures anything on the table. especially with my pretty polaroid cameras.

4, reading papers, writing something, spreading maps over for a next trip, listening to the radio, crocheting for coming winter and of course blogging.

5, lingering and chatting with my husband with sipping a cup of coffee after breakfast on weekends. in that situation all the family members ( 2 of us and 2 cats) are together around the table somehow.

6, many scratches my cats carved on. annoying but still lovely.


there're a lot of love around the table.
the table at home are weaving so many love for family, i believe. :))

enjoy your life with your table!